json vs protobuf

Overview

protobuf

Stacks459

Followers1

Votes0

GitHub Stars9.3K

Forks1.6K

json

Stacks29

Followers6

Votes0

GitHub Stars2.0K

Forks421

json vs protobuf: What are the differences?

Developers describe json as "An implementation of JOSE standards". An implementation of JOSE standards (JWE, JWS, JWT) in Go. On the other hand, protobuf is detailed as "Go support for Google's protocol buffers". Go support for Google's protocol buffers.

json and protobuf can be categorized as "Go Modules Packages" tools.

json and protobuf are both open source tools. It seems that protobuf with 5.57K GitHub stars and 1.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than json with 1.39K GitHub stars and 250 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

protobuf	json
Go support for Google's protocol buffers.	An implementation of JOSE standards (JWE, JWS, JWT) in Go.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 9.3K	GitHub Stars 2.0K
GitHub Forks 1.6K	GitHub Forks 421
Stacks 459	Stacks 29
Followers 1	Followers 6
Votes 0	Votes 0

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