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SHOW HN2020

36points
2comments
#1,260of 3,028 in 2020
Top 42%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 1 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Seen as an elegant alternative to schema-embedding formats and heavy code generation

    From 1 comment
    • All my life I've been searching for this thing. I thought my only choice was either to include the schema in the message (JSON, CBOR, MessagePack) or use bloated code-generation…
      fiatjaf on HN

Objections

  • Commenter argues stateless tokens should be replaced by HTTP headers and content negotiation

    From 1 comment
    • > stateless tokens tend to be a lot larger than their stateful counterparts. [...] Here’s an example: the cursor fields on the new GraphQL APIs are stateless. This is one of…
      cxr on HN

Alternatives named

  • JSON, CBOR, MessagePack

    From 1 comment
    • All my life I've been searching for this thing. I thought my only choice was either to include the schema in the message (JSON, CBOR, MessagePack) or use bloated code-generation…
      fiatjaf on HN
  • Protobuf

    From 1 comment
    • All my life I've been searching for this thing. I thought my only choice was either to include the schema in the message (JSON, CBOR, MessagePack) or use bloated code-generation…
      fiatjaf on HN

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