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is it just so the content of the message is as small as possible? otherwise you are still going to have to write code to interpret every array of arrays so what's the point?
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Moon 2y ago

I have been pointed at:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/225#issuecomment-1419008389

which explains the reasoning. I can actually accept that it prevents hashing ambiguities of objects which is something I have had to deal with in other contexts.

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anemone 2y ago

JSON was a really bad choice for the data interchange format for multiple reasons imo but it’s likely too late now…

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Moon 2y ago

last year i made a demo babby-tier "social network" on top of IPFS pubsub, I used msgpack which worked great.

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anemone 2y ago

Yeah msgpack would have been better, anything with a binary field type would be better honestly.

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Moon 2y ago

i was autistically focused at the time about my data structures hashing deterministically but what i found was people saying "don't do it" or "it's basically impossible anyway" I don't believe it's "impossible" but basically they all concluded, just hash what you got because the deterministic object structure for hashing isn't actually critical.