Only as a description language. The message format is a subset of GVariants. | Hacker News

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		compressedgas on Nov 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are We Wayland Yet? Only as a description language. The message format is a subset of GVariants.

sprash on Nov 25, 2019 [–]

At closer inspection GVariants looks very similar to JSON though.

compressedgas on Nov 25, 2019 | [–]

Except that it was designed to be read into memory and directly accessed without parsing. A GVariant Array has the form of its elements and their lengths. You can index into an Array in linear time.

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