Hacker News Reader

I personally found BSON* (or maybe protobuf) a better format for a wire protocol. I really miss support for a date type and binary data in JSON (for my own applications).

* http://bsonspec.org/

View on HN

msgpack[1] or LEON[2] might be more useful alternatives, in that case, depending on your interoperability requirements.

[1] http://msgpack.org/ [2] https://github.com/raypulver/LEON

Reply on news.ycombinator.com