WhatsNewKit vs swift-protobuf

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WhatsNewKit		swift-protobuf
	Project
2	Mentions	8
3,679	Stars	4,458
-	Growth	1.1%
7.2	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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WhatsNewKit

Posts with mentions or reviews of WhatsNewKit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-18.

How can I make this Onboarding page for MacOS app in SwiftUI.
3 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 18 Nov 2022
Hi, I’m new to Swift and wondering if there is a class/component in Swift that allows me to create splash screens like this or do I have to create them manually? Thanks!
2 projects | /r/swift | 17 Jul 2022

I’ve used https://github.com/SvenTiigi/WhatsNewKit for this in the past, but now use my own SwiftUI code. Maybe look at the library to get ideas on how to version the presented data. I.e. on version 3.0.0 you open the app with certain things that are new, but they change for 3.1.0

swift-protobuf

Posts with mentions or reviews of swift-protobuf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-09.

Binary Encoder/Decoder between rust and swift
1 project | /r/rust | 9 Jun 2023

https://docs.rs/prost/latest/prost/ crate lets you encode / decode protobuf messages. You can write a message which represents your struct or whatever data type is, set the fields, and then encode it into bytes. Decoding in swift can be done with something like this https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf ig.
Connect-Swift: You’ll want to use Protobuf on iOS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023

I’ve used Protobuf in Swift and it was pretty straightforward. Apple already provides a tool chain [1] so using a third party is a hard sell.
[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf
Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022

> Why should they? That isn't their target audience.
Because they need it?
Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers
All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2]
Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [3]
Swift is crossplatform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework
[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo...
[3] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...
Google's Swift protobuf library crashes on unknown enums
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2022
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

Swift Protobuf - Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift. Language: Swift.
Google Protocol Buffers Support Idiomatic Kotlin Bindings
2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 2 Jan 2022

I need to explore using Protobuf -> Swift (https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf) then using the Kotlin Native to Swift interop: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-objc-interop.html
Swift Protobuf JSON enum parsing isn't forwards compatible
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021
Starlink (SpaceX.API.Device) Class or .proto file for Swift (iOS)
1 project | /r/Starlink | 3 Aug 2021

Thanks. I downloaded and installed https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf. Is that the tool you are talking about? This creates a blank .proto file and generates .pb.swift files but I am stuck on creating the Starlink .proto file. Do you have a StarLink .proto file? I was successful in creating a protoset file but not a .proto file. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WhatsNewKit and swift-protobuf you can also consider the following projects:

SwiftGen - The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

ExSwift

protobuf-swift - Google ProtocolBuffers for Apple Swift

SwiftTweaks - Tweak your iOS app without recompiling!

CocoaAsyncSocket - Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS

PinpointKit - Send better feedback

Reachability.swift - Replacement for Apple's Reachability re-written in Swift with closures

SwiftSequence - A μframework of extensions for SequenceType in Swift 2.0, inspired by Python's itertools, Haskell's standard library, and other things.

APIKit - Type-safe networking abstraction layer that associates request type with response type.

ReadabilityKit - Preview extractor for news, articles and full-texts in Swift

Ciao - Publish and discover services using Bonjour