tinylib/msgp

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1951 stars · 203 forks observed · 2026-10-01

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

A Go code generator and serialization library for MessagePack that generates fast marshal/unmarshal and encode/decode methods from Go type declarations. It uses Go structs as the schema language and supports JSON interop, stream serialization, and user-defined extensions.

Use cases

• generate msgpack serialization code for go structs
• fast binary serialization in go
• serialize structs to messagepack with zero allocations
• convert msgpack to and from in go
• use go structs as a messagepack schema
• generate tests and benchmarks for serialization code

When to choose

• you need high-performance messagepack encoding/decoding in Go
• you want type-safe serialization without reflection overhead
• you need JSON interoperability alongside a binary format
• you want stream-oriented serialization with io.Reader/io.Writer

When to avoid

• you need dynamic or schema-less serialization of arbitrary data
• your project is not written in Go
• you prefer runtime reflection-based encoders over generated code

Facets

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serialization developer-tools developer-tools apis backend go cli msgpack code-generator go-generate zero-allocation -interop code-generation

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