alt Hacker NewsUsing a well–written third–party library would not increase the development time; it would in fact reduce it. No risk of missing Christmas there.
Using a well–written third–party library would not increase the development time; it would in fact reduce it. No risk of missing Christmas there.
Well-written 3rd party serialization libraries weren't exactly easy to come by 20 years ago, at least from what I can recall. Your best bet was using an XML library, but XML parsing was quite resource heavy. Many that seemed well designed turned out to be a security nightmare (Java serialization).