Boost.Serialization vs Magic Enum C++

Boost.Serialization

Boost.org serialization module (by boostorg)

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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)

Serialization Cplusplus cplusplus-17 C++ c-plus-plus-17 CPP Cpp17 enum-to-string string-to-enum Reflection Metaprogramming header-only single-file no-dependencies Enum

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Boost.Serialization		Magic Enum C++
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118	Stars	4,403
2.5%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	8.1
12 days ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
C++	Language	C++
-	License	MIT License

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Boost.Serialization

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Magic Enum C++

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What C++ library do you wish existed but hasn’t been created yet?
18 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jul 2023

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++
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
Fully Permissive License C++ Logger For Embedded System
6 projects | /r/embedded | 28 Jun 2023

Also, a shoutout to Magic Enum: https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
Favorite Ways of Stringifying Enums
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 10 May 2023
enum_name (yet another enum to/from string conversion utility >=C++11)
4 projects | /r/cpp | 19 Mar 2023

What does this have to offer over magic_enum?
quill v2.7.0 released - Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library
3 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Feb 2023

But it's a hack, and I prefer not to use hacks in production, because of their significant limitations:
Enums print numbers instead of words
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 23 Jan 2023

You can either write a to string(view) function for your enum or use https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
Enums with methods
2 projects | /r/cpp | 27 Dec 2022

Why reinvent the wheel? magic_enum
Error: Boost bimap can't convert const CompatibleKey to Key&
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 22 Nov 2022

Also if you want to convert enum members to string representation I suggest you just use magic_enum instead, much smaller dependency.
Macro to write enum and converter from and to string
2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 26 Oct 2022

Magic Enum provides that.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost.Serialization and Magic Enum C++ you can also consider the following projects:

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

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

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

SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec

pfr - std::tuple like methods for user defined types without any macro or boilerplate code

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.

wise_enum - A reflective enum implementation for C++