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Uh, it has plenty of methods for more compact encodings? https://github.com/nlohmann/json#binary-formats-bson-cbor-me...

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Sure, if you want to change the format of the whole message. If you're communicating with something that accepts JSON and you can't or don't want to change that, then having a more efficient option is nice.

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