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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by alexdeloy on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:32PM (#22537482)
I was asking myself the same thing and apparently protobuf has no concept of "null", thus I can see how MessagePack might have an advantage depending on your use case here.

https://github.com/neuecc/MessagePack-CSharp#comparison-with...

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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by fizx on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:39PM (#22537548)
protobuf can do nullable values, but you have to ask for them as primitives are the default. e.g. StringValue (nullable) vs string (not)
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