It surprised me how popular this message got. I love nerding out about binary serialization and space-efficiency and great to see I'm not the only one :)
If you want to get deeper, I published two (publicly available) deep papers studying the current state of JSON-compatible binary serialization that you might enjoy. They study in a lot of detail technologies like Protocol Buffers, CBOR, MessagePack, and others that were mentioned in the thread:
If you want to get deeper, I published two (publicly available) deep papers studying the current state of JSON-compatible binary serialization that you might enjoy. They study in a lot of detail technologies like Protocol Buffers, CBOR, MessagePack, and others that were mentioned in the thread:
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051
Hope they are useful!