I believe that every new computing protocol should come with official libraries,

in different programming languages, to prevent human interpretation errors.

Only machines can validate the logical errors, and official libraries make this possible.

Where community will be focused on single target to test and contribute.

👻 ps

Mar 18 · 7 months ago · 👍 clseibold

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🚀 stack · 2025-03-18 at 16:42:

Working code is the best specification.

🦂 zzo38 · 2025-03-18 at 17:03:

Even one FOSS implementation is helpful, since in addition to being a working computer program, together with the documentation you might be able to understand things which are unclear from the documentation, which sometimes occurs.

(This is not only for computing protocols, but can also be relevant for file formats, some types of games, etc.)

🚀 stack · 2025-03-18 at 20:02:

To follow that thought, a large volume of protocol makers have no idea how to make protocols.

🚀 stack · 2025-03-18 at 20:23:

You know, I am the final authority on protocols...

👤 emilis · 2025-03-19 at 05:05:

I’d say it would better come with a test suite. A single implementation makes a library and a dependency, not a protocol.