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Comment by pwdisswordfishz

5 months ago

> Obviously MessagePack is what cool kids would use.

Why is that even a consideration?

> To measure complexity, you can often use documentation length as a proxy. MessagePack is just a markdown file. The CBOR spec has its own gravitational field.

That's a proxy for underspecification, not complexity.

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relistan  5 months ago

>> Obviously MessagePack is what cool kids would use. >Why is that even a consideration?

What’s “cool” is not important but being “cool” _can_ mean there is a larger ecosystem around it. It can also be a proxy for how well your stuff will interact with other systems and how many people you can hire that will just know how it works without having to learn another new thing.

On the other hand, none of that applies to this person’s personal project. And in that context, I think your comment stands.