# kerryjiang/SuperSocket

SuperSocket is a high-performance, extensible socket server application framework for .NET. It provides a robust architecture for building custom network communication applications with support for multiple protocols including TCP, UDP, and WebSocket.

Repository: https://github.com/kerryjiang/SuperSocket
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/supersocket
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: csharp, socket, socketserver, realtime-communication, tcp, udp, websocket, network-protocol-decoding, dotnet
Last push: 2026-04-04T05:18:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 75, release rhythm 66, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5142, "days_push": 151, "days_rel": 151, "gap_med": 46, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4233, forks 1165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.480125+00:00)

## What it is
SuperSocket is a high-performance, extensible socket server application framework for .NET. It provides a pipeline-based architecture for building custom TCP, UDP, and WebSocket servers with protocol abstraction, middleware, and session management.

## Use cases
- build a custom TCP socket server in .NET
- implement a game server with custom network protocol
- create a real-time chat server over WebSocket
- connect IoT devices over TCP or UDP
- decode custom binary protocols from socket streams
- build a high-throughput low-latency messaging server

## When to choose
- you need a .NET socket server framework with protocol abstraction and pipeline filters
- you want built-in TCP, UDP, and WebSocket support with session and command handling
- you need high performance with buffer pooling and minimal allocations
- you want integration with modern .NET dependency injection, configuration, and logging

## When to avoid
- you only need a simple HTTP/REST API rather than raw socket communication
- you are not on the .NET platform
- you need a turnkey messaging product rather than a framework to build one

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: websocket, middleware, networking, serialization
- domain: networking, iot, backend
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform, windows
- tags: socket-server, tcp, udp, csharp, high-performance, protocol-abstraction, session-management, real-time, game-development, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- kerryjiang/SuperSocket (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.480125+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:19.654037+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kerryjiang/SuperSocket (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.480125+00:00, sha 344ce1a3959d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.