[erlang-questions] binary typed schema-less protocol

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 26/07/2013, at 5:04 PM, Motiejus Jakštys wrote:
> About a year(?) ago I was pointed to a binary protocol which can encode
> strings, numbers, lists (maybe some more data types like map), and
> cannot rember its name nor find a reference.

Could this have been Joe Armstrong's UBF?

Ad-hoc communication with other not-written-by-you components
sounds a bit more like JSON or BSON, or _possibly_ BERT.

UBF's strength is being able to slot a "contract checker"
in between two components