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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:17PM (#13870592)
They require a schema. A schemaless binary serialization like CBOR or BSON is more amenable to JSON interchange.
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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by k__ on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:06PM (#13871013)
How about http://msgpack.org/?
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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:03PM (#13872340)
Son's a niche tool to allow talking to JSON services in a more consistent way. It's not meant as an competitor to any other data format.

EDIT: s/alternative/competitor

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