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by userbinator 689 days ago
I wish binary length-prefixed formats would've become more common. Parsing text, and especially escaping, seems to be a continual source of bugs and confusion. Then again, those who don't implement escaping correctly may also overlap with those who can't be bothered learning how to use a hex editor.
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They are pretty common, just not among "JSON/XML everywhere" people.