Nostr Web Client

Yaml?

TSV. Plan9's NDB. GNU Recutils. Bencode or even djb's netstrings.

Plenty of formats that require less computing power to manage and less effort to read. Yet the hindustry settled on JSON/YAML/XML.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Best format doesn't always win because of network effects.

Luxferre 1y ago

I doubt any efficient data serialization and marshalling formats, as well as fast and efficient software in general, are ever going to be widely adopted unless a global energy crisis occurs and everyone is forced to live on 40W max per desktop.