Towards human-readable binary encodings Posted on Jan 11, 2023 Can we make binary encodings “human-readable”? This post explores this question by means of implementing a library inspired by Erlang’s bit syntax. Motivation JSON is probably the most commonly used format for serialising data today. A frequent argument for using it is that JSON is human-readable. What does that mean exactly? I suppose that people usually mean two things. First, it’s less verbose than XML, making it easier...
