Show HN: Protobuf-go-lite: reflection-free protobuf for Go with JSON support

1. protobuf-go-lite

   1 1 36 6.9 Go

   Reflection-free Protobuf for Go.

   

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3. vtprotobuf

   2 6 987 6.5 Go

   A Protocol Buffers compiler that generates optimized marshaling & unmarshaling Go code for ProtoBuf APIv2

   

   Hi HN,

   protobuf-go is a widely used binary serialization library and IDL for protobuf in Go. The upstream library leverages reflection to provide a wide variety of features which are useful in a server context.

   Go is increasingly being used for resource-constrained environments like embedded (tinygo) and WebAssembly. In these environments, reflection is not always available, and when it is, it adds significant weight to the binary size.

   vtprotobuf: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf - compiles static code generation for Protobufs in go, including functions to marshal, unmarshal, size, clone, messages. However, it still requires protobuf-go and the reflection-based code for the message structs.

   protobuf-go-lite takes this one step further with a stripped-down version of the protobuf-go code generator modified to work without reflection and merged with vtprotobuf to provide modular features with static code generation for marshal/unmarshal, size, clone, and equal. It bundles a fork of protoc-gen-go-json for JSON support.

   It has already been used (experimentally) for a reflection-free version of OpenTelemetry for Go: https://github.com/gburek-fastly/opentelemetry-proto-go/pull... as well as other projects at Aperture Robotics.

   Thanks & have a great Friday!

   ~ Christian Stewart

4. opentelemetry-proto-go

   3 1 0 7.2

   Generated code for OpenTelemetry protobuf data model (by gburek-fastly)

   

   Hi HN,

   protobuf-go is a widely used binary serialization library and IDL for protobuf in Go. The upstream library leverages reflection to provide a wide variety of features which are useful in a server context.

   Go is increasingly being used for resource-constrained environments like embedded (tinygo) and WebAssembly. In these environments, reflection is not always available, and when it is, it adds significant weight to the binary size.

   vtprotobuf: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf - compiles static code generation for Protobufs in go, including functions to marshal, unmarshal, size, clone, messages. However, it still requires protobuf-go and the reflection-based code for the message structs.

   protobuf-go-lite takes this one step further with a stripped-down version of the protobuf-go code generator modified to work without reflection and merged with vtprotobuf to provide modular features with static code generation for marshal/unmarshal, size, clone, and equal. It bundles a fork of protoc-gen-go-json for JSON support.

   It has already been used (experimentally) for a reflection-free version of OpenTelemetry for Go: https://github.com/gburek-fastly/opentelemetry-proto-go/pull... as well as other projects at Aperture Robotics.

   Thanks & have a great Friday!

   ~ Christian Stewart

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