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CBOR — Concise Binary Object Representation (cbor.io)

submitted 1 year ago by lysdexic@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They might get some more uptake if they had some examples or a more concise explanation than just linking to the RFC (aside from the tutorial in French).

[–] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Some basic tables showing how a json object would be encoded in CBOR would go a long way.

RFCs make for dry reading.

[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's hard to provide examples of a binary format beyond a few benchmarks.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Compare to MessagePack's example from their front page:

It answers 90% of my questions in a quick example.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

rfc didnt seem so bad to me. but im a hobbyist