And msgpack if you want an order of magnitude faster serialization/deserialisation and can put up with worse compression (I think mainly due to schema overhead

And msgpack if you want an order of magnitude faster serialization/deserialisation and can put up with worse compression (I think mainly due to schema overhead since protobuf files don't store the schema?) https://msgpack.org/index.html https://msgpack.org/index.html Good protobuf vs msgpack comparison: https://medium.com/@hugovs/the-need-for-speed-experimenting-with-message-serialization-93d7562b16e4 https://medium.com/@hugovs/the-need-for-speed-experimenting-...