On: The Blink Protocol

[bkirwi]

True; but it's hard to support a fixed-length encoding when a message can contain nested collections of arbitrary length.

[drosenborg → bkirwi]

The just released Blink Native binary format might be an alternative if you want a fixed-length encoding: http://blog.blinkprotocol.org/2013/01/blink-native-format-re...