Alternatives to Protocol Buffers [closed]

Question

I'd like a basic message passing/RPC system. I could use a serialisation system but I want some sort of verification to ensure both ends are synchronised. I've looked at Google Protocol Buffers, but I'm not too keen on code generation. What are other alternatives?

Kerbing

Answer 1

You can look at http://msgpack.org/

Rifkin

Answer 2

Maybe thrift would do. http://thrift.apache.org/

Menendez

Answer 3

Cap'n Proto, which is designed by Kenton Varda, who worked for Google as the primary author of Protocol Buffers version 2 (the open source one now everybody uses). It has a feature called "time travel" that worths looking (a feature that makes round trips for fetching dependent data to and from server into one trip).

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/

Marijuana

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Answer 4

I really love Cap’n Proto!

Awesome serialization + RPC capabilities, open source, great schema language...

(Authored by Kenton Varda, the primary author of Protocol Buffers version 2)

Chondrule