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Erlang has amazing default serialization and deserialization. term_to_binary(T) and binary_to_term(B)

Right, but what about JSON?

Parsing the binary blobs for interop is annoying, see for exmaple the Wings file format, made almost entirely of Erlang serialized objects:

(I edited the last paragraph in before seeing your post here.)

The last paragraph is absolutely right. It's incredibly ironic...