ugorji/go

idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go]

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go-codec

This repository contains the go-codec library, the codecgen tool and benchmarks for comparing against other libraries.

This is a High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go 1.20+ codec/encoding library for binary and text formats: binc, msgpack, cbor, json and simple.

It supports generics and monomorphization, based on build tags set.

Code Organization and Module Support

This repository consists of 1 module:

github.com/ugorji/go/codec README

To install:

go get github.com/ugorji/go/codec

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ugorji/go

idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go]

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go-codec

This repository contains the go-codec library, the codecgen tool and benchmarks for comparing against other libraries.

This is a High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go 1.20+ codec/encoding library for binary and text formats: binc, msgpack, cbor, json and simple.

It supports generics and monomorphization, based on build tags set.

Code Organization and Module Support

This repository consists of 1 module:

github.com/ugorji/go/codec README

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