[Waterluvian]

We are paying a cost in clarity, human editability, and further splintering of formats.

Everything is a trade off. So what do we get in trade for those rather large costs?

40% bandwidth savings might be worth it. But what are the gzipped comparisons?

[tzekid]

Compression and decompression (gzip) takes computing power and RAM. The resulting JSON (in memory) is still harder to parse because of the required field names...