[hansdieter1337]

The obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

[galkk]

If I recall correctly, Ion preceed even Google's protobuf, and is 20+ year old technology. This isn't result of "yet another standard" but parallel evolution

[nine_k]

This is a funny joke.

Also, this is the way any progress is made. Between 15 competing standards, some win over.

Were it not so, we'd still use whatever Cobol used for data serialization.