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Protobuf

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

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Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to Protobuf

Messagepack YAML TOML JSON Dhall Configuration Language Jsonnet Protocol Buffers Ansible Multipass Visual Studio Code

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Build And Deployment Automation Cloud Computing Configuration Management Databases DevOps Tools Developer Tools Group Chat & Notifications IDE IT Automation Mobile Apps Productivity Software Development

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Protobuf are Messagepack, YAML, and TOML. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Messagepack Landing Page
    Messagepack Landing Page
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    Messagepack

    An efficient binary serialization format.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 13 social mentions

  2. YAML Landing Page
    YAML Landing Page
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    YAML

    YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions

  3. TOML Landing Page
    TOML Landing Page
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    TOML

    TOML - Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mobile Apps #Configuration Management #Software Development 11 social mentions

  4. JSON Landing Page
    JSON Landing Page
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    JSON

    (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #NoSQL Databases #Software Development 13 social mentions

  5. Dhall Configuration Language Landing Page
    Dhall Configuration Language Landing Page
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    Dhall Configuration Language

    A non-repetitive alternative to YAML
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Software Development #Productivity 83 social mentions

  6. Jsonnet Landing Page
    Jsonnet Landing Page
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    Jsonnet

    A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 32 social mentions

  7. Protocol Buffers Landing Page
    Protocol Buffers Landing Page
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    Protocol Buffers

    A method for serializing and interchanging structured data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Mobile Apps #Productivity 15 social mentions

  8. Ansible Landing Page
    Ansible Landing Page
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    Ansible

    Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Build And Deployment Automation 9 social mentions

  9. Multipass Landing Page
    Multipass Landing Page
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    Multipass

    Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions

  10. Visual Studio Code Landing Page
    Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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    Visual Studio Code

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

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