I don't mean frontend but anything related to web services, really. "Lots of http transport stuff" is still "web programming" (for me, at least). >Msgpack just

I don't mean frontend but anything related to web services, really. "Lots of http transport stuff" is still "web programming" (for me, at least). >Msgpack just doesn't seem, to me, as a really great fit for anything in particular. Pinterest disagrees: http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/ http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/ To give you some context, frsyuki developed MessagePack originally for RPC (he was building a distributed key-value store in college) and made a conscious decision not to add a string type for maximal cross-language compatibility. Like a lot of other technology, MessagePack has outlived its original purpose, and there is a lot of demand now for it to support the (utf-8) string type, not just byte array.