protobuf-c
Protocol Buffers implementation in C (by protobuf-c)
cista
Cista is a simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library. (by felixguendling)
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| protobuf-c | cista | |
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| 2 | 4 | |
| 2,572 | 1,642 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 6.4 | 7.3 | |
| 6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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protobuf-c
Posts with mentions or reviews of protobuf-c.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.
- protobuf-c: Google Protocol Buffers implementation in C
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nanopb VS protobuf-c - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Feb 2022
More user friendly for variable size arrays
cista
Posts with mentions or reviews of cista.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
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what is the best API for serialization?
C++ has some reflection. You can checkout cista: https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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Ask HN: What happened to flatbuffers? Are they being used?
If you're looking for something faster but C++ specific, more compact in serialized size, more efficient in serialization you can try cista: https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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Adding reflection to C++ just to make a game work
If you want to see, what's possible with plain C++ (no language changes needed), checkout https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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alpaca: A new serialization library written in C++17 - Pack C++ structs into a compact byte-array without any macros or boilerplate
Can you give us some hint on what would be different in your project from the libraries that do roughly the same? The tser author has made a comment here, but I know that cista and zpp_bits probably have some overlap with alpaca. I just don't have a specific use case now, so I don't have an urge to dive deep into the topic, but in the past I've needed a library like yours, and right now I would have to evaluate half a dozen libraries to know would be "best" or more appropriate.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing protobuf-c and cista you can also consider the following projects:
nanopb - Protocol Buffers with small code size
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]
protozero - Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
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.
Bitsery - Your binary serialization library