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Developer builds a binary schema language to shrink JSON by 80%

Author publishes blog post on building a binary schema language

1 Sep 27 9:15 AM · 1d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 1 of 4

The post walks through designing a binary format with type headers, varint-encoded lengths, and field-number tagging to compress JSON-style data, and it is submitted to r/... by GenericAHHyoutuber.

“I ended up building an entire binary schema language that can shrink JSON payloads by 80%.”

hereticpleb (blog author)

hereticpleb (blog author) Author of the blog post and creator of the binary schema language

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