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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by progval on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:54PM (#22538357)
JSON also misses dictionaries/"objects" with non-string keys. Msgpack discourages you from using them because languages like JS don't support it, but allows it.
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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by mr_toad on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:18PM (#22539821)
JavaScript has Maps which allow anything as a key, but they were added after JSON was thought up, and they don’t have an literal format.
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