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As the author of a large automation system (https://github.com/DeanRoddey/CQC), I've done literally over a hundred drivers for devices and other systems and written tens of my own, which have protocols ranging the gamut from binary to text, nice to utterly suck-worthy, sync vs. async, standards based vs. ad hoc, etc...
Some serialization libraries can do validation for you, greatly reducing the amount of code needed to implement a protocol and chances to introduce validation bugs. For example: https://github.com/entur/protobuf-validation