protobuf-c
Protocol Buffers implementation in C (by protobuf-c)
MessagePack
MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++] (by msgpack)
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| protobuf-c | MessagePack | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 2,572 | 2,893 | |
| 1.7% | 1.1% | |
| 6.4 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
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
MessagePack
Posts with mentions or reviews of MessagePack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
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Serializing struct with bit-fields
I have searched extensively, and have tried a few libraries from msgpack-c (C++), to YAS, and a few more not to name.
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Binary de-/serialization
how about https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/tree/c_master ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing protobuf-c and MessagePack you can also consider the following projects:
nanopb - Protocol Buffers with small code size
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
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.
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
ArduinoJson - 📟 JSON library for Arduino and embedded C++. Simple and efficient.
protozero - Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec