alt Hacker NewsIt's not quite clear to me why you'd use this over something more established such as protobuf, thrift, flatbuffers, cap n proto etc.
It's not quite clear to me why you'd use this over something more established such as protobuf, thrift, flatbuffers, cap n proto etc.
Those care about quickly sending compact messages over the network, but most of them do not create a sparse in-memory representation that you can read on the fly. Especially in javascript.
This lib keeps the compact representation at runtime and lets you read it without putting all the entities on the heap.
Cool!