Top 22 Go Encoding Projects

• msgpack

  3 2,311 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

• stegify

  3 1,163 1.8 Go

  🔍 Go tool for LSB steganography, capable of hiding any file within an image.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• encoding

  8 966 3.6 Go

  Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs.

  

Project mention: Handling high-traffic HTTP requests with JSON payloads | /r/golang | 2023-12-07

• sttr

  7 860 6.3 Go

  cross-platform, cli app to perform various operations on string

• dongle

  0 856 2.9 Go

  A simple, semantic and developer-friendly golang package for encoding&decoding and encryption&decryption

  

• ecoji

  2 827 0.0 Go

  Encodes (and decodes) data as emojis

Project mention: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-14

• go-geom

  0 793 6.7 Go

  Package geom implements efficient geometry types for geospatial applications.

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• watson

  6 270 1.3 Go

  WATSON: Wasted but Amazing Turing-incomplete Stack-based Object Notation (by genkami)

• go-webp

  0 204 2.8 Go

  Simple and fast webp library for golang

  

• base64

  1 179 0.0 Go

  Faster base64 encoding for Go (by cristalhq)

  

• jx

  1 167 4.8 Go

  json encoding and decoding (by go-faster)

  

• polyline

  0 101 4.3 Go

  Package polyline implements a Google Maps Encoding Polyline encoder and decoder.

• go-kml

  0 84 4.3 Go

  Package kml provides convenience methods for creating and writing KML documents.

• go-fixedwidth

  0 80 4.4 Go

  Encoding and decoding for fixed-width formatted data

• qs

  0 74 4.3 Go

  Go module for encoding structs into URL query parameters (by sonh)

• aces

  1 65 2.5 Go

  Encode in a character set of your choice

• ffmpegd

  1 62 10.0 Go

  FFmpeg websocket server for ffmpeg-commander.

• polyglot

  1 39 7.2 Go

  A high-performance serialization framework used for encoding and decoding arbitrary datastructures across languages. (by loopholelabs)

  

• fpdecimal

  1 29 6.2 Go

  🛫 Fixed-Point Decimals

• fpmoney

  0 24 6.9 Go

  🧧 Fixed-Point Decimal Money

• swallowjson

  1 4 3.0 Go

  Golang: Support for preserving unknown fields from JSON when unmarshalling instead of discarding

  

• redigo

  1 2 1.8 Go

  🔥 A Redis client for GoLang featuring Tags with Gob & JSON encoding. (by ainsleyclark)

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