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If extensibility is needed, then something like MessagePack, CBOR, or BEVE makes sense. I don't know which one among them. The CBOR standard turns out to be massive and looked pretty ugly so I looked away... which is disappointing because it is widely used. BEVE looks far simpler and they say faster and smaller. I didn't peek at MessagePack but then again I'm not sure extensibility via changing data types is a good idea. Consider me nudged though.
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Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 1y ago

Might need more metadata for extensibility if you would want some sort of custom key-map capability.

JSON is easy to extend, it is sort of a given but I don't know much about CBOR or BEVE

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

Yes metadata is an example where extensibility is definitely needed. CBOR and BEVE are binary, extensible and the types include the JSON types. BEVE is here https://github.com/beve-org/beve and it looks like all the encoding is defined right there in the small README.md file, which is far simpler than CBOR if I'm not misunderstanding.

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Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 1y ago

Looks great! I should actually spend sometime writing a library for that in D, I dig binary formats.

But yes, that looks like a contender.