On 4 Dec 2020, at 16:41, Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com> wrote:
> Bytes are the only way to not make assumptions about the libraries,
> languages, etc. being used.

Except that bytes are making significant assumptions about the libraries and 
languages being used. It’s assuming that what you get out of your parser 
corresponds to the same bytes that were on the stream, which seems particularly 
unlikely in languages that aren’t C at heart (C, C++, Go…).

/K
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