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

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/programming_horror

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days 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 2 points 5 days ago

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