[elcritch]

My favorite serde format is Msgpack since it can be dropped in for an almost one-to-one replacement of JSON. There's also CBOR which is based on MsgPack but has diverged a bit and added and a data definition language too (CDDL).

Take JSON-RPC and replace JSON with MsgPack for better handling of integer and float types. MsgPack/CBOR are easy to parse in place directly into stack objects too. It's super fast even on embedded. I've been shipping it for years in embedded projects using a Nim implementation for ESP32s (1) and later made a non-allocating version (2). It's also generally easy to convert MsgPack/CBOR to JSON for debugging, etc.

There's also an IoT focused RPC based on CBOR that's an IETF standard and a time series format (3). The RPC is used a fair bit in some projects.

1: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper/blob/devel/src/nesper/ser... 2: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/fastrpc 3: https://hal.science/hal-03800577v1/file/Towards_a_Standard_T...