Re: CBOR (Was: My experiences with Rust)

when i finger the old sw and hw, same patterns appear. things could use binary. things could be secured with deprecated methods. both will lead to loss of access. your conversion program could get lost. what if in future, my current favorite, json is also outdated and in same position of xml. but those things you could at least read and parse with your own eyes. sure, at some point the efficiency will maybe lead to binary formats but this is at loss of use in future. i bet if we still have people messing with data in future, i can already hear them yelling who was that asshole that created all this. since it's usage loss, it's even easy to forget it was for some greater good. even compression algorithms fail. ever had that feeling, phew, at least this thing uses *TEXT*. i can read it with standard tools? even if the output sucks balls. at least it's understandable. unsure if this justifies text only outputs but be prepared that somebody either discards or just curses a lot on your binary formats as much as you and i do now. the problem is in extra tools you need to invent to read all. yeah one could argue that maybe even ascii text is special binary format, we just still have tools to "get" it. but that thing has at least lasted for so long. along with c programming language and so on. why did they last? nothing really bad lasts. so maybe it was good? maybe people found it understandable? i have no idea how future will be. but some of those things are older than me and i can still understand them. why? it's all plain text!!! that one we view as bad and inefficient and what not. it all doesn't matter if you can't parse it