<div dir="ltr"><br>The key feature of UBF was that beyond being a serialization format, it was also a contract checker.<div>That was a very nice feature. If you'd like to do something like that today, perhaps you'd go for JSON or MessagePack encoding, JSON-Schema and Jesse.</div><div><br></div><div>Needless to say, Joe's solution was far more elegant. It was also far less supported, even when he was alive. Joe was always searching for the next interesting challenge, and as memory serves, he parked UBF thinking that he wasn't 100% satisfied with it. It didn't bother him to park something for a decade while trying to address that final wrinkle.</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><a id="seal-container-v1-2b121f83eea49a7b1f47514a026bd644601f52a0f203394da1d6a9ca74505d2f" href="https://gmail.app.vereign.com/#CiAzy_GB8f6QvveZ4EbTaXoDdsWTb_ETB6W49Cwj1RyD1xIggbHUSgcbmAeIDsfNGcBv5GttvylTY3bzBmlLx8UQ6AA=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect"><img id="seal-image-2b121f83eea49a7b1f47514a026bd644601f52a0f203394da1d6a9ca74505d2f" alt="Vereign Seal" src="cid:ii_kvb099000" width="145" height="219" style="width: 145px; height: 219px;"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:45 AM <<a href="mailto:hamishberridge@tutanota.com">hamishberridge@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><div dir="auto">I haven't used Erlang, so I suppose my question is very naive. I read that UBF[1] is not maintained. So I am wondering what's used by Erlang as serialization format? Is there a new one that replaces UBF? Or UBF is still used as it, it's just not much change as it's stable? <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If there are UBF alternative options, what options are available? <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many thanks<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[1]. <a href="https://github.com/ubf/ubf" target="_blank">https://github.com/ubf/ubf</a><br></div> </div>
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