On 8/20/2011 12:50 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Masahiro Nakagawa seems to be working on msgpack: https://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/msgpack4d/
Yeah, this does look quite useful. I tried it a few weeks ago and ran into a couple showstopper bugs. I filed them and he fixed them, but I never got around to trying it again.
I actually think that since both are very commonly needed things and satisfy completely different niches, Orange and msgpack4d might both eventually have a rightful place in Phobos. Orange would be recommended when portability and serializing as many types as possible are important, and msgpack4d would be recommended when speed and space efficiency are the primary concerns.
Is RIFF considered a good format? I've ran into it when porting C code, it seems it's also used by Google and probably other companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format
From reading the Wikipedia article (I knew nothing about RIFF before this discussion) it sounds like it's in a valley in between two utility peaks. XML provides maximum portability. msgpack provides maximum efficiency. RIFF doesn't really provide either all that well.
