MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by sdegutis on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:13PM (#22537950)

I've become particularly fond of Ion[1]. The main benefit JSON has over Ion is its ubiquity, even in many standard libraries.

[1] https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by dathinab on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:59PM (#22538430)

This looks quite nice. But then S-Expressions and the soon to be there templates add quite a bit of unnecessary complexity IMHO.

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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by sdegutis on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:08PM (#22561762)

I doubt it's any more complicated to add S-Expressions than to change list parsing to take either [] or () and set a type flag based on which one it finds. Semantically, it's not more complex either, just giving one extra piece of user-defined metadata to the actual data that's still basically a list.

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