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   Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:13:49 JST Andrew Kelley

   Common intermediate programmer mistake: trying to use the same abstraction for inputting a given thing, vs outputting it.

   Advanced programmers know these are fundamentally different tasks deserving independent abstractions.

   Example: JSON

   For outputting, there's no value in constructing a bunch of pointless hash maps in memory. Just stream the data out with some basic API to ensure correct syntax and nesting.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:15:04 JST Rich Felker

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     @andrewrk Unless you acceparbitrary unstructured input you don't need them for input either. You can process directly into structured data.