Binary protocols are only cheap if your time is free. If you can&#x27;t connect to your service via telnet, you&#x27;re going to spend a lot more time debugging. The only way to fix this is to develop a textual representation of your format, and write your own telnet, which is feasible, but nobody seems to have done that to OSC.<p>Also, I find Armstrong&#x27;s fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Because odds are, they&#x27;re wrong.