Biniou (pronounced "be new") is a binary data format
designed for speed, safety, ease of use and backward
compatibility as protocols evolve. Biniou is vastly
equivalent to JSON in terms of functionality but allows
implementations several times faster (4 times faster than
yojson), with 25-35% space savings.

Biniou data can be decoded into human-readable form without
knowledge of type definitions except for field and variant
names which are represented by 31-bit hashes. A program
named bdump is provided for routine visualization of biniou
data files.

The program atdgen can be used to derive OCaml-Biniou
serializers and deserializers from type definitions. 
