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64bitbrain on May 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 50 Lies Programmers Believe

"We now have the one true data representation format: JSON." huh?!!! We just moved from protobuf to JSON.

astrodust on May 26, 2015 [–]

JSON is great for a lot of things, but sometimes CSV is better. Sometimes packed binary is better. JSON for all things is a bad plan.

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