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Re:Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript r... by bitwize on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:25AM (#33406144)
I recommend Capnproto. Parsing time is zero, you can pretend you're a Microsoft programmer in the early 90s and just use the in-RAM struct as your wire format. Maybe it doesn't make sense for in-browser JS applications (though WASM is a different story) but for IPC and RPC in the general case, all parsing and unparsing does is generate waste heat.

ALWAYS favor a binary format unless you have a really good reason otherwise.

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Re:Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript r... by kccqzy on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:12PM (#33410045)
Capnproto is designed by Kenton, a former Google engineer who did a lot of work with protobufs at Google. I see Capnproto as the spiritual successor of protobuf, fixing many issues in protobufs.

Also, Capnproto is quite extensively used in some Cloudflare products.

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