I think it will be quite tragic if HTTP 2.0 ends up being a binary protocol. The discoverability and readability of the basic text based Internet was, in my opi

I think it will be quite tragic if HTTP 2.0 ends up being a binary protocol. The discoverability and readability of the basic text based Internet was, in my opinion, one of its most fantastic qualities. It meant that as a young hacker I could just look at things and see how they work and then progress to learning and experimenting by writing very naive partial implementations of said protocols. I am not sure the bits saved justify the obfuscation of everything.