A new random-access JSON alternative from the creator of nvm.sh, luvit.io, and js-git.

Interesting. I've heard about cursors in reference to a Rust library that was mentioned as being similar to protobuf and cap'n proto.

Does this duplicate the name of keys? Say if you have a thousand plain objects in an array, each with a "version" key, would the string "version" be duplicated a thousand times?

Another project a lot of people aren't aware of even though they've benefitted from it indirectly is the binary format for OpenStreetMap. It allows reading the data without loading a lot of it into memory, and is a lot faster than using sqlite would be.

Edit: the rust library I remember may have been https://rkyv.org/

I love these projects, I hope one of them someday emerges as the winner because (as it motivates all these libraries' authors) there's so much low hanging fruit and free wins changing the line format for JSON but keeping the "Good Parts" like the dead simple generic typing.

XML has EXI (Efficient XML Interchange) for precisely the reason of getting wins over the wire but keeping the nice human readable format at the ends.

this is more nuanced than the title suggests. worth reading the whole thing

this matches my experience exactly