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		rmrfrmrf on April 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing JSON is a Minefield If you think XML doesn't suffer from all the same issues, you haven't used it enough. I'd use protobuf for something that needs stict serialization and parsing.

jstimpfle on April 22, 2018 [–]

I think protobuf is a binary format though?

petters on April 22, 2018 | [–]

It can be rendered to and parsed from text but that is typically not used.

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