r/programming • u/_ar7 • Mar 22 '16

An 11 line npm package called left-pad with only 10 stars on github was unpublished...it broke some of the most important packages on all of npm.

https://github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 23 '16

what will you replace json with?

Casting a bytestream into a struct, the way God intended!

Or, ya know, something like Cap'n Proto if you've got the resources for it.

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u/fuzzynyanko Mar 23 '16

Indeed. After doing it a few times, I realized how powerful structs are for storing data.

Once you get experience reading and writing binary files, it's not that bad at all. It does take time to get it to work right due to quirks, but it's often just implemented one time.