Play JSON VS circe

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

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Play JSON circe
2 12
356 2,470
1.4% 0.5%
8.4 7.4
6 days ago 6 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • 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

circe

Posts with mentions or reviews of circe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

What are some alternatives?

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

json4s - JSON library

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

play-json

zio-json - Fast, secure JSON library with tight ZIO integration.

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

argonaut - Purely functional JSON parser and library in scala.

jawn - Jawn is for parsing jay-sawn (JSON)

diffson - A scala diff/patch library for Json

scala-json - Compile-time JSON marshaling and abstraction for Scala, Scala Native and Scala.js