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  > For me the advantage of msgpack is simplicity / efficiency in parsing the response

If you like that, you might want to take a look at tnetstrings as a format.

drewcrawford 13y

Simple, yes. Efficient, no. For example, msgpack can encode a 2-byte binary blob in 3 bytes. tnetstrings takes eleven bytes, for no appreciable benefit in decoding time.

Also there's this gem:

> You are not allowed to implement any of the following features: UTF-8 Strings

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