I would argue passing around all data as text is suboptimal, not only from a performance point of view but also in terms of robustness. Parsing plain text using regular expressions and suchlike can lead to some useful outcomes but it&#x27;s easy to derive false positives from this. On the other hand a binary-based object-oriented approach can give better performance and make it easier to parse data.<p>This is just one example of where the old ways aren&#x27;t necessarily the best. I&#x27;m fairly confident we could come up with something better than POSIX if we were willing to make the effort.