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Developer builds jBin, a custom binary schema format cutting JSON size by 80%

A developer, prompted by a Twitter debate over JSON versus binary formats, built a custom binary schema language called jBin. The project explains how encoding data in binary rather than plain text or JSON can shrink payload size, reportedly by up to 80% compared to JSON, by using type and length markers instead of verbose text representations.