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My thoughts on MessagePack

Hi. My name is Sadayuki "Sada" Furuhashi. I am the author of the MessagePack serialization format as well as its implementation in C/C++/Ruby.

Recently, MessagePack made it to the front page of Hacker News with this blog entry by Olaf, the creator of the Facebook game ZeroPilot. In the comment thread, there were several criticisms for the blog post as well as MessagePack itself, and I thought this was a good opportunity for me to address the questions and share my thoughts.

My high-level response to the comments

To the best of my understanding, roughly speaking, the criticisms fell into the following two categories.

	#!/bin/bash

	# git pre-commit hook that runs an clang-format stylecheck.
	# Features:
	# - abort commit when commit does not comply with the style guidelines
	# - create a patch of the proposed style changes

	# modifications for clang-format by [email protected]
	# This file is part of a set of unofficial pre-commit hooks available
	# at github.

	REPORTER = spec

	all: jshint test

	test:
	@NODE_ENV=test ./node_modules/.bin/mocha --recursive --reporter $(REPORTER) --timeout 3000

	jshint:
	jshint lib examples test index.js

	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
	MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

	# get these from dev.twitter.com
	CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"