The format is not that bad.
The binding/libraries OTOH are often awful and they often require unnecessary full-message deserialization
It would be nice if the next serialization format either is truly original or just solves problems that somehow none of the many existing schemes do.
How many serialization formats are there? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati... (which is NOT a complete list).
you couldn't be more wrong. what happens when you lose the schema, or never had access to it in the first place? think from the point of view of reverse engineering
I'm not sure that's a helpful way to look at things.
There are tradeoffs. Can you elaborate more about what aspects of a TLV encoding you find problematic? Is it decoding speed? The need to copy the encoded value into a native value in order to make use of it? Something else?
