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by creationix 84 days ago
The current format version is the exact same feature set as JSON. I even encode numbers as arbitrary precision decimals (which JSON also does). This is quite different from CBOR which stores floats in binary as powers of 2.

I could technically add binary to the format, but then it would lose the nice copy-paste property. But with the byte-aware length prefixes, it would just work otherwise.