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> JSON compresses extremely well even in ancient gzip

Correct. MessagePack comes out significantly ahead for small messages, otherwise it's nearly a wash.

> CBOR is probably the closest to a widely adopted "pure" adaptation of JSON

It adds (1) binary data (2) numeric variants including big integers (3) timestamps (4) tagged/semantic types.

I.e. it adds quite a bit. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Browser implementation would be great, but I'm skeptical.





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