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.