Sadly, the extra bandwidth will come in handy as software developers become evermore slack.
I do agree about parsing text (like json!). It seems crazy to stick to text formats/ protocols when binary would be much faster (it's easy to convert binary to text for debugging purposes, as that's what happens anyway!), we're still not fully utilising http2. (Don't quote me) but I remember hearing somewhere that -10% of computer resources are spent converting between base10 and base2. Have a read of DotNet's Span (reference structs), by not copying values everywhere (and the relieving subsequent GC pressure) it's improved tasks like parsing text by an order of magnitude (often more) - That's something the compiler will be able to do without the developer's effort.
Grace Hopper and her nanoseconds (30cm) of wire, doesn't sound so eccentric these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Anecdotes
Sadly, the extra bandwidth will come in handy as software developers become evermore slack.
I do agree about parsing text (like json!). It seems crazy to stick to text formats/ protocols when binary would be much faster (it's easy to convert binary to text for debugging purposes, as that's what happens anyway!), we're still not fully utilising http2. (Don't quote me) but I remember hearing somewhere that -10% of computer resources are spent converting between base10 and base2. Have a read of DotNet's Span (reference structs), by not copying values everywhere (and the relieving subsequent GC pressure) it's improved tasks like parsing text by an order of magnitude (often more) - That's something the compiler will be able to do without the developer's effort.
ASCII is underappreciated.