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Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack
Protocols are important. Communicate with caution.
In my pursuit of a sharable programming language, I need a suitable serialization format that's (1) performant to send/store and (2) easy to understand/implement. After further experiments, I somehow convinced myself that this serialization format also needed to (3) commit to existing standards, (4) work overtime as a pseudo-IR, (5), and run on relatively crappy hardware. CBOR is just how MessagePack-like format should have been done from the beginning: it's technically superior in a sense that it's neat and simple, replacing many specialized rules with one generalization.
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