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by ktamura 3110 days ago
>but it has serious drawbacks such as the time and CPU resources it takes for parsing and the lack of schema.

Ditto. And if you still prefer the schema-free approach of JSON but with faster encoding and decoding support across all common programming languages, take a look at MessagePack.

Unlike JSON, MessagePack is optimized for speed and encodes common data types efficiently. Unlike Protobuf/gRPC, it requires no centralized schema.

MessagePack: https://msgpack.org/