> It is interesting that e.g. Thrift, Protocol Buffers et al don't seem to have made much of an inroad here. I'm actually working on a tool called Haris to dea

> It is interesting that e.g. Thrift, Protocol Buffers et al don't seem to have made much of an inroad here. I'm actually working on a tool called Haris to deal with this very problem. I'm looking to do structured binary data serialization in a way that's efficient, lightweight, and portable (in that it conforms to the C standard). Keep an eye out, I'll probably be posting it on Hacker News within the next few weeks.