ProtoBuf vs Utf8Json

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ProtoBuf		Utf8Json
	Project
-	Mentions	4
297	Stars	2,248
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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

Posts with mentions or reviews of ProtoBuf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ProtoBuf yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Utf8Json

Posts with mentions or reviews of Utf8Json. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Utf8Json VS Utf8JsonAsyncStreamReader - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 10 May 2023
Branchless Exercise
1 project | /r/csharp | 25 Jan 2022

While I posted a solution that would do this, I'd call this premature optimization. The only time I'd even consider doing this is in a hot path. Here's a good reason to focus on branchless programming: https://github.com/neuecc/Utf8Json.
Tried system.text.json instead of Newtonsoft.json for a personal project, resulted in a 10x throughput in improvement
3 projects | /r/csharp | 14 Dec 2021

Now try Utf8Json.
Runtime communication with C# applicaiton
2 projects | /r/rust | 18 Apr 2021

If my game state was smaller I would go for https://github.com/neuecc/Utf8Json and serde_json combination. Would save me some time with rmp_serde customization.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ProtoBuf and Utf8Json you can also consider the following projects:

Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

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.

Jil - Fast .NET JSON (De)Serializer, Built On Sigil

ZeroFormatter - Infinitely Fast Deserializer for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.

Protobuf.NET - Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET

Msgpack-Cli - MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure / msgpack.org[C#]

LitJSON - JSON library for the .Net framework

MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin) - Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin). / msgpack.org[C#]

ServiceStack.Text - .NET's fastest JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers