Bitsery VS construct-js

Thanks for sharing https://github.com/fraillt/bitsery it seems more powerful but require quite a boilerplate code for even very simple composite stuff. With ByteStream you can totally forget about deep you are in the data-structure hierarchy.

Bitsery is the closest I've seen to it, but you have to use extensions (which i can't yet figure out the API for) to make it achieve byte for byte compatbility

If size and performance matter, then take a look at bitsery. * it might be 9x+ faster than cereal and 18x faster than protobuf. * size-wise, you might save 20-30% by default * on top of that you additional might opt-in into: * bit-level serialization control (e.g. if your values are in the range 1000-2000 it will take you 10bits, or use VLE) * backward-forward compatibility support * pointer support, including raw pointers with the ability to provide custom allocator. * and powerful extensions system, which allows you to further customize things in any way you want it :)

About on par with nlohmann is a binary serialization lib called Bitsery. It's easy to use, and will be a lot more performant than json. The downside is that the serialized data won't be human readable.

How events emitters or streams, but I made heavy use of buffers in construct js, which is a library for creating byte level binary data structures.

I've been working pretty hard for the last couple of years to bring a lot of these capabilities to JS/TS. Arcsecond (and it's binary extension) is a general library for parsing, which can easily take a block of memory and convert it to a workable data structure (even when that data structure is some kind of contextual union). You can use construct-js to (re)build an arbitrary byte buffer from structured data, making use of operators for sizeof and pointers.

I myself am looking for a binary serializer/deserializer that's like construct in python or construct-js, but obviously I wouldn't need some of the types that they have, since C++ already has them.