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ocrow 3 hours ago

Seems like a coherent, sensible proposal, as one might expect from djb. Any notable protocols use them?

Scaevolus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

BitTorrent's bencoding format, used in .torrent files, effectively uses netstrings-- but without the trailing commas, so it uses "5:hello" to represent filenames and similar.

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asalahli an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not sure if it counts as notable, but SCGI uses it too: https://python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt

toast0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Php serialized uses

   s:size:value;
For strings, which is pretty similar. Size is in bytes.