Yep. I did try binary formats first. I tried existing ones like CBOR, I tried making my own like Nibs. The text encoding is an operational concern, not a technical one.
This is the same reason I've been advocating for JSONL at work. It's not ideal technically, but it's a good balance of technically good enough while being also human friendly when things go wrong.
This is the same reason I've been advocating for JSONL at work. It's not ideal technically, but it's a good balance of technically good enough while being also human friendly when things go wrong.
- https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-global-routing-faster-wi... - https://vercel.com/blog/scaling-redirects-to-infinity-on-ver...
RX is one step towards less human friendly, but more machine friendly. I try to keep things balanced in my designs.