BurntSushi/byteorder

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1093 stars · 160 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rust crate providing convenience methods for encoding and decoding numbers in big-endian or little-endian byte order. It extends the standard Read and Write traits with endian-aware numeric methods and supports no_std environments.

Use cases

• read and write integers in little-endian or big-endian byte order
• parse binary file formats with specific endianness
• serialize numbers for network protocols
• decode binary data from a byte stream in Rust
• use endian-aware number encoding in a no_std embedded project

When to choose

• you need endian-aware reading/writing of numbers over io::Read/io::Write streams
• you are working with binary file formats or network protocols in Rust
• you need a lightweight, no_std-compatible serialization helper

When to avoid

• you only need simple conversions like to_le_bytes/from_le_bytes available in the Rust standard library since 1.32
• you need full struct serialization rather than raw number encoding

Facets

library · maturity stable

serialization developer-tools files rust cross-platform byte-order endian binary-format no-std rust-crate

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