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Found this beauty in one of my old projects from school (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by bigboismith@lemmy.world to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone's handed me nested base-64 encoded JSON before and to this day I am moderately annoyed at them.

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

unity kinda does this ! there is a json file wirh a base-64 encoded string (UTF-16 encoding) and is a completely different data structure with embedded json

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I just had to add URL-encoded TOML to something due to a certain Rust crate's constraints.