Yep. I did try binary formats first. I tried existing ones like CBOR, I tried making my own like Nibs. The text encoding is an operational concern, not a technical one.

This is the same reason I've been advocating for JSONL at work. It's not ideal technically, but it's a good balance of technically good enough while being also human friendly when things go wrong.

- https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-global-routing-faster-wi... - https://vercel.com/blog/scaling-redirects-to-infinity-on-ver...

RX is one step towards less human friendly, but more machine friendly. I try to keep things balanced in my designs.