Re: My experiences with Rust

> On Aug 22, 2025, at 5:29 PM, Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> And nobody needs to open "format" *directly* in text editor - as CBOR is
> seamlessly converted to/from text-form EDN (extended diagnostic notation, a
> superset of JSON), that sounds like a requirement to open ELF binary directly
> in text editor instead of just putting (dis)assembler into pipeline.

This goes against the principles that have made UNIX systems successful since 1969, (and follows path with many systems which came and went).

"Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
Thompson, McEllroy, Salus, etc.

Love it or hate it, but it's a guarantee some user will be trying to debug/manage the interface output here many years after any of us in this thread have stopped touching it, when CBOR feels as antiquated as XML.  Big difference: anyone can read the XML and figure out what the heck it is by looking at it using common tools.

Best,
.ike