go-codec vs binstruct

go-codec

idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go] (by ugorji)

Serialization go-capnproto

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binstruct

Golang binary decoder for mapping data into the structure (by ghostiam)

Serialization Golang Binary Decoder unmarshaling Structure Struct Reader Go

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go-codec		binstruct
	Project
1	Mentions	-
1,817	Stars	81
-	Growth	-
6.5	Activity	2.6
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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go-codec

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-codec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.

Wasm difficulties in Rust, Haskell, and Go
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go-codec depends on reflect

binstruct

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-codec and binstruct you can also consider the following projects:

jsoniter - A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json"

csvutil - csvutil provides fast and idiomatic mapping between CSV and Go (golang) values.

colfer - binary serialization format

asn1

php_session_decoder - PHP session encoder/decoder written in Go

fwencoder - Fixed width file parser (encoder/decoder) in GO (golang)

mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

cbor - CBOR codec (RFC 8949) with CBOR tags, Go struct tags (toarray, keyasint, omitempty), float64/32/16, big.Int, and fuzz tested billions of execs.

bambam - auto-generate capnproto schema from your golang source files. Depends on go-capnproto-1.0 at https://github.com/glycerine/go-capnproto

goprotobuf - Go support for Google's protocol buffers