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Enter a JSON wrapper format for specifying assembly applications, compete with a NodeJS transpiler toolchain a la Babel.

Seriously though, it's been a while since I've had to work with assembly or IDA but JSON is great as an interoperable data format. Sure, it's not maximally efficient, but what needs to be?

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> it's not maximally efficient, what needs to be?

I'm guessing most things written for a 6502

Emacs had to add JSON parsing to its C core to get reasonable performance when using JSON for interprocess communication.

What, you mean Emacs Lisp wasn't fast enough?

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