I find msgpack really shines when you design your datasets and protocols around heavy use of arrays and integers. If your data is string heavy, there is little reason to use it. Also the elephant in the room, what about large binary values? It's annoying to encode Dates in JSON, but it's really annoying to have to encode large binary values as giant base64 strings.
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I find msgpack really shines when you design your datasets and protocols around heavy use of arrays and integers. If your data is string heavy, there is little reason to use it. Also the elephant in the room, what about large binary values? It's annoying to encode Dates in JSON, but it's really annoying to have to encode large binary values as giant base64 strings.