json4s VS Play JSON

Compare json4s vs Play JSON and see what are their differences.

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json4s Play JSON
2 2
1,466 355
-0.1% 0.3%
8.5 8.4
3 days ago 11 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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json4s

Posts with mentions or reviews of json4s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

Play JSON

Posts with mentions or reviews of Play JSON. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
  • Scala 3 with pulsar4s and Circe or Play Json
    1 project | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2022
    I have personally used play-json in Scala 3 without issues so far (see https://github.com/playframework/play-json/issues/769).
  • Performance of 12 JSON parsers for Scala
    9 projects | /r/scala | 29 Mar 2021
    I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json

What are some alternatives?

When comparing json4s and Play JSON you can also consider the following projects:

circe - Yet another JSON library for Scala

spray-json - A lightweight, clean and simple JSON implementation in Scala

jackson-module-scala - Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes

jsoniter-scala - Scala macros for compile-time generation of safe and ultra-fast JSON codecs

diffson - A scala diff/patch library for Json

play-json

argonaut - Purely functional JSON parser and library in scala.

sonofjson - Better JSON support for Scala