Generate C# code for protocol buffer serialization from a .proto specification.

ProtoBuf alternatives and similar packages

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• Json.NET

  9.8 7.7 L1 ProtoBuf VS Json.NET

  Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

• Protobuf.NET

  9.1 7.3 L2 ProtoBuf VS Protobuf.NET

  Protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications

• Bond

  8.2 6.2 L3 ProtoBuf VS Bond

  cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data.

• MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

  8.1 8.8 ProtoBuf VS MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

  Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin). / msgpack.org[C#]

• Jil

  8.0 4.8 L1 ProtoBuf VS Jil

  Fast .NET JSON Serializer, built on Sigil (used by StackOverflow)

• ServiceStack.Text

  7.7 8.5 L2 ProtoBuf VS ServiceStack.Text

  JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers used in servicestack.net

• ZeroFormatter

  7.7 0.0 ProtoBuf VS ZeroFormatter

  Fastest C# Serializer and Infinitely Fast Deserializer for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.

• Utf8Json

  7.1 0.0 ProtoBuf VS Utf8Json

  Fast and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity and Xamarin), this serializer write/read directly to UTF8 binary so boostup performance.

• FileHelpers

  6.9 7.9 L2 ProtoBuf VS FileHelpers

  free and easy to use .NET library to import or export data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams.

• LitJSON

  6.6 0.6 ProtoBuf VS LitJSON

  JSON library for the .Net framework

• Msgpack-Cli

  6.1 6.0 L2 ProtoBuf VS Msgpack-Cli

  MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure

• Wire

  4.6 0.0 L5 ProtoBuf VS Wire

  Binary serializer for POCO objects

• FsPickler

  4.0 6.4 ProtoBuf VS FsPickler

  A fast multi-format message serializer for .NET

• JsonSubTypes

  2.3 7.5 ProtoBuf VS JsonSubTypes

  Discriminated Json Subtypes Converter implementation for .NET

• Migrant

  2.3 0.0 L4 ProtoBuf VS Migrant

  Fast and flexible serialization framework usable on undecorated classes.

• Bois

  1.2 2.1 L1 ProtoBuf VS Bois

  Salar.Bois is a compact, fast and powerful binary serializer for .NET Framework.

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