Top 4 Go Msgpack Projects

msgpack

3 2,284 5.1 Go

msgpack.org[Go] MessagePack encoding for Golang (by vmihailenco)

Project mention: Rob Pike: Gobs of data (2011) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-04

Someone made a benchmark of serialization libraries in go [1], and I was surprised to see gobs is one of the slowest ones, specially for decoding. I suspect part of the reason is that the API doesn't not allow reusing decoders [2]. From my explorations it seems like both JSON [3], message-pack [4] and CBOR [5] are better alternatives.
By the way, in Go there are a like a million JSON encoders because a lot of things in the std library are not really coded for maximum performance but more for easy of usage, it seems. Perhaps this is the right balance for certain things (ex: the http library, see [6]).
There are also a bunch of libraries that allow you to modify a JSON file "in place", without having to fully deserialize into structs (ex: GJSON/SJSON [7] [8]). This sounds very convenient and more efficient that fully de/serializing if we just need to change the data a little.
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1: https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks
2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29766#issuecomment-45492...
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3: https://github.com/goccy/go-json
4: https://github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack
5: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor
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6: https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp#faq
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7: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson
8: https://github.com/tidwall/sjson

restish

8 645 6.7 Go

Restish is a CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features built-in

Project mention: Looking for Open-source web app back-end repository written in Golang | /r/golang | 2023-12-08

Project using APIBin for examples https://rest.sh

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go-client

1 539 3.5 Go

Nvim Go client (by neovim)
go-parameters

0 2 6.9 Go

:blue_book: Easily parse incoming parameters and values from an HTTP request

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