[judofyr]

Author of the article here.

The format itself is not strictly speaking coupled to JSON: https://github.com/sanity-io/mendoza/blob/master/docs/format.... If you can encode int8 and string more efficiently, then you can save some bytes with a custom binary encoding. However, you always need to be able to represent JSON as well. If a part of the JSON file isn't present in the old version, then you encode that part by the plain JSON.

> and moving the "symbol table" (string data) to the end? … you could also compress redundant symbols into single strings.

Sounds interesting, but in my experience these types of tricks are usually not paying off compared to just sending it through Gzip afterwards.