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This is not an accurate representation of Amazon's current policies.

Sorry, this isn't true. The Java and C++ implementations were developed simultaneously, by different authors. The Java side has always been more full-featured, and has always had a…

It's more than just precision, it's making sure that the same value comes out that went in, and that things haven't been subtly altered via unintended conversions between decimal a…

Ion's equivalently-expressive text and binary formats is absolutely central to its design, and IMO one of its most compelling features. You don't have to choose between "human read…

I generally agree, except the "type" of JSON numbers isn't well-defined with respect to precision and binary-vs-decimal floating point representation. An application that cares dee…

A big problem with Avro, BSON, and many other "binary JSON" formats is that they're not isomorphic with JSON, they have a bunch of additional stuff added on. There's Avro documents…

I'm having a bit of trouble parsing this, but Ion decimal values are not "infinite precision". Every decimal has a very specific, finite precision. It's a standard "coefficient and…

The "!=" means "not the same value according to the Ion data model". The Ion value 0.0 has one digit of precision (after the decimal point), while the value 0.00 has two. In the Io…