protobuf-c vs protozero

protobuf-c

Protocol Buffers implementation in C (by protobuf-c)

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protozero

Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++ (by mapbox)

Serialization protocol-buffers C++

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protobuf-c		protozero
	Project
2	Mentions	1
2,572	Stars	276
1.7%	Growth	4.7%
6.4	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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
1 project | /r/Clibs | 26 Apr 2022
nanopb VS protobuf-c - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Feb 2022

More user friendly for variable size arrays

protozero

Posts with mentions or reviews of protozero. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-30.

Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2020

Its a shame you can't share the code, we could really do with a modern C++ implementation. Having said that, protozero looks very interesting [1], need to find some time to look into it.
[1] https://github.com/mapbox/protozero

What are some alternatives?

When comparing protobuf-c and protozero you can also consider the following projects:

nanopb - Protocol Buffers with small code size

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

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

MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]

cista - Cista is a simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library.

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.

cereal - A C++11 library for serialization

Nameof C++ - Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum