[erlang-questions] binary typed schema-less protocol

[Vincent de Phily]

On Friday 26 July 2013 00:49:02 Mike Oxford wrote:
> Google protobuf

Which is great, but not schema-less.

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe 
<ok@REDACTED>wrote:
> > 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

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