> what is the benefit of the line format being character strings? Wouldn't a binary package not be just as easy translatable into human readable JSON formatted output as a compacted JSON string is?
One benefit is that I can look at an arbitrary file/response and be able to tell with a fairly high certainty whether it's JSON, YAML, or TOML, but there's no way that I tell whether it's messagepack, bson, or protobufs.
One benefit is that I can look at an arbitrary file/response and be able to tell with a fairly high certainty whether it's JSON, YAML, or TOML, but there's no way that I tell whether it's messagepack, bson, or protobufs.