spray-json VS circe

Compare spray-json vs circe and see what are their differences.

spray-json

A lightweight, clean and simple JSON implementation in Scala (by spray)
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spray-json circe
2 12
970 2,470
0.0% 0.3%
0.0 7.4
3 months ago 7 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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spray-json

Posts with mentions or reviews of spray-json. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
  • Scala JSON Parser
    1 project | /r/scala | 16 Jul 2022
    I use json spray and like it a lot :) https://github.com/spray/spray-json
  • Performance of 12 JSON parsers for Scala
    9 projects | /r/scala | 29 Mar 2021
    I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json

circe

Posts with mentions or reviews of circe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spray-json and circe you can also consider the following projects:

jackson-module-scala - Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes

json4s - JSON library

play-json

Play JSON - The Play JSON library

zio-json - Fast, secure JSON library with tight ZIO integration.

jsoniter-scala - Scala macros for compile-time generation of safe and ultra-fast JSON codecs

scala-json - Compile-time JSON marshaling and abstraction for Scala, Scala Native and Scala.js

argonaut - Purely functional JSON parser and library in scala.