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A comment on Show HN: Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size of JSON.

Re:Show HN: Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size ... by placeybordeaux on Sunday September 14, 2014 @11:34AM (#8315396)
I really don't see too many use cases here. Both parties have to buy into it, then at that point you might as well use a binary protocol.
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Re:Show HN: Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size ... by jarin on Sunday September 14, 2014 @01:01PM (#8315613)
For some apps, there are cases where you want to load the entire dataset and then operate over it (see pourover.js http://newsdev.github.io/pourover/ )
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