Protocol buffers for JavaScript?

Question

Is there a way to do protocol buffers in JavaScript?

Why for .js?

If you think about sciencey requirements for a moment, situations pop up where you might wa

Answer 1

Historically javascript made working with binary a pain, which probably in part explains a relative lack of tooling - but with javascript typed arrays it could well be a lot easier now. I kinda agree that if you have to get the same volume of data (via some format), using less bandwidth is a plus - but before embarking on anything you'd need to check that bandwidth / processing was an actual bottleneck (and if bandwidth: have you tried gzip/deflate first).

I'm a fan of protobuf - and I'd happily see stronger browser-side tooling for it, but json is so ubiquitous that you'd need a compelling reason to challenge the status-quo. Also; think "jsonp".