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by Groxx 883 days ago
This is true with any non-self-describing format. Which includes the vast majority of JSON depending on who you ask - if you aren't specifying a schema in the request, what does `name` really mean?

Self-describing comes with rather large costs over a compact format in essentially all cases, there are lots of good reasons to prefer it. Particularly in internal infrastructure, like telemetry tends to involve.