Comment by theshrike79
Comment by theshrike79 a day ago
Also: debugging
You (a human) can just open a JSON request or response and read what's in it.
With protobuf you need to build or use tooling that can see what's going on.
Comment by theshrike79 a day ago
Also: debugging
You (a human) can just open a JSON request or response and read what's in it.
With protobuf you need to build or use tooling that can see what's going on.
It is only "human readable" since our tooling is so bad and the lowest common denominator tooling we have can dump out a sequence of bytes as ascii/utf-8 text somewhat reliably.
One can imagine a world where the lowest common denominator format being a richer structured binary format where every system has tooling to work with it out of the box and that would be considered human readable.