Magic Enum C++
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code (by Neargye)
Protobuf
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format (by protocolbuffers)
| Magic Enum C++ | Protobuf | |
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| 44 | 184 | |
| 5,019 | 65,944 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 7.8 | 10.0 | |
| 10 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Magic Enum C++
Posts with mentions or reviews of Magic Enum C++.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.
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What C++ library do you wish existed but hasn’t been created yet?
I'm not sure this is quite what you're asking for, but this library has been super helpful to me in the past : https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
- Usable Magic Enums for C++
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Fully Permissive License C++ Logger For Embedded System
Also, a shoutout to Magic Enum: https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
- Favorite Ways of Stringifying Enums
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enum_name (yet another enum to/from string conversion utility >=C++11)
What does this have to offer over magic_enum?
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quill v2.7.0 released - Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library
But it's a hack, and I prefer not to use hacks in production, because of their significant limitations:
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Enums print numbers instead of words
You can either write a to string(view) function for your enum or use https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
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Enums with methods
Why reinvent the wheel? magic_enum
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Error: Boost bimap can't convert const CompatibleKey to Key&
Also if you want to convert enum members to string representation I suggest you just use magic_enum instead, much smaller dependency.
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Macro to write enum and converter from and to string
Magic Enum provides that.
Protobuf
Posts with mentions or reviews of Protobuf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-07.
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Part 3: Compiling the Protos and Setting up the gRPC server
You can also download the protoc compiler from the official protobuf release page and add the path to the protoc compiler to the system environment variable.
- What's new in C++26 (part 1)
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Why should we use Protobuf in Web API as data transfer protocol.
Note: If you want to use the Google Protobuf compiler for code generation, download it from GitHub based on your OS. Follow this link for code generation instructions.
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Another variable-length integer encoding
Unary length prefix is a solid technique. I would be careful with the performance claims, though. Sometimes what the machine can do is surprising and the performance of a system that looks like it needs to loop and branch is faster than you expected. The protobuf project, unsurprisingly for a project of its age, has several different varint parsing strategies. One is described at https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go... and another at https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...
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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
See protobuf field presence:
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/f...
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Open Source C++ Stack
This is a language-agnostic serialization library that is much faster than JSON and provides way more compact representation. There are several implementations with different features and trade offs. μpb is a very lightweight C++ implemantion that uses arena allocations.
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A protoc compiler plugin that generates useful extension code for Kotlin/JVM
I have raised an issue requesting the addition of optional scalar types, but it is not planned to be supported by protoc-gen-kotlin.
- Show HN: Protobuf Editions now available in v27.0
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Consistent Hashing: An Overview and Implementation in Golang
protobuf: go get -u google.golang.org/protobuf/proto
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Hitting every branch on the way down
It's because they changed the versioning format: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases?page=5
But I suppose old version still receive bugfixes.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Magic Enum C++ and Protobuf you can also consider the following projects:
Nameof C++ - Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]
protozero - Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
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.
pfr - std::tuple like methods for user defined types without any macro or boilerplate code
Apache Parquet - Apache Parquet Java