A new random-access JSON alternative from the creator of nvm.sh, luvit.io, and js-git.

You shouldn't be using JSON for things that'd have performance implications.

JSON is human-readable, why even compare it with this. Is any serialization format now just a "JSON alternative"?

I love these projects, I hope one of them someday emerges as the winner because (as it motivates all these libraries' authors) there's so much low hanging fruit and free wins changing the line format for JSON but keeping the "Good Parts" like the dead simple generic typing.

XML has EXI (Efficient XML Interchange) for precisely the reason of getting wins over the wire but keeping the nice human readable format at the ends.

Very cool stuff!

This did catch my eye, however: https://github.com/creationix/rx?tab=readme-ov-file#proxy-be...

While this is a neat feature, this means it is not in fact a drop in replacement for JSON.parse, as you will be breaking any code that relies on the that result being a mutable object.