[pessimizer]

I can craft malicious binary data just as easily to execute a function if you execute binaries that begin with a few magic bytes when you're reading input into a buffer.

You seem to be relying on some assumption that you have about human psychology for your security gain. Somehow people would never do that with a binary protocol, and text protocols make them more comfortable and trusting. At least they can read text protocols directly; binary protocols involve me trusting a bunch of middleware I'm using to read them, too, or writing my own (always great for security.)

[meelooo]

no, I rely on the fact that any version of an "eval" function should just no exist and that any text based protocol encourages the existence of such functions that can execute whatever is thrown at them, just because it sounds so easy and a quick shortcut in API design.