json5 VS Json.NET

Compare json5 vs Json.NET and see what are their differences.

json5

JSON5 — JSON for Humans (by json5)

Json.NET

Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET (by JamesNK)
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json5 Json.NET
94 53
6,238 10,481
1.0% -
0.0 3.1
4 months ago 13 days ago
JavaScript C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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json5

Posts with mentions or reviews of json5. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

Json.NET

Posts with mentions or reviews of Json.NET. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing json5 and Json.NET you can also consider the following projects:

Utf8Json - Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).

MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin) - Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin). / msgpack.org[C#]

Protobuf.NET - Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET

LitJSON - JSON library for the .Net framework

Jil - Fast .NET JSON (De)Serializer, Built On Sigil

ProtoBuf - C# code generator for reading and writing the protocol buffers format

Bond - Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.

ServiceStack.Text - .NET's fastest JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers

hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]

JsonSubTypes - Discriminated Json Subtypes Converter implementation for .NET

ZeroFormatter - Infinitely Fast Deserializer for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.