http://simonwillison.net/2009-10-21T22:11:37+00:00Simon Willison2009-10-21T22:11:37+00:002009-10-21T22:11:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/21/bert/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://github.com/blog/531-introducing-bert-and-bert-rpc">Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC</a></strong></p> Justification for inventing a brand new serialisation protocol: Thrift and Protocol Buffers both use IDLs and code generation, XML “is not convertible to a simple unambiguous data structure in any language I’ve ever used” and JSON lacks support for unencoded binary data. The result is BERT—Binary ERlang Term—which extracts a format from Erlang in much the same way that JSON extracted one from JavaScript. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlang">erlang</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/github">github</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/protocolbuffers">protocolbuffers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/serialisation">serialisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thrift">thrift</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a></p>