µPickle VS Chill

Compare µPickle vs Chill and see what are their differences.

µPickle

uPickle: a simple, fast, dependency-free JSON & Binary (MessagePack) serialization library for Scala (by lihaoyi)

Chill

Scala extensions for the Kryo serialization library (by twitter)
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µPickle Chill
4 0
691 608
1.0% 0.8%
6.7 0.6
8 days ago 4 days ago
Scala Scala
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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µPickle

Posts with mentions or reviews of µPickle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.
  • Why does Scala seem to be slow at benchmark results?
    6 projects | /r/scala | 22 Oct 2022
    The upickle library has traditionally had great performance for handling json in Scala apps so is likely to be seen as a safe choice for someone starting a Scala project. It appears though that not just upickle, but other json library projects are having difficulties maintaining their old level of performance when they release using Scala 3's macros. uPickle currently has an open issue where you can see some of these issues: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/upickle/issues/389 and here you can see the weePickle folks are also having the same performance problems. Looks like things changed up significantly enough between Scala 2 and Scala 3 so that in order to maintain the same functionality they have resorted to using runtime reflection for mapping to/from case classes.
  • Updated benchmark results of JSON parsers for Scala - now with results for circe and play-json boosters based on jsoniter-scala.
    3 projects | /r/scala | 25 Jan 2022
    See here for sample code size numbers (not picking on upickle specifically, it's just what I'm using myself. I've heard similar reports about e.g. circe)

Chill

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing µPickle and Chill you can also consider the following projects:

ScalaPB - Protocol buffer compiler for Scala.

msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Scala / msgpack.org[Scala]

Pickling

scodec - Scala combinator library for working with binary data

Scrooge - A Thrift parser/generator

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