Prutal is a pure Go alternative to protocol buffers, it covers most of the functionality offered by Protocol Buffers.
Prutal aims to minimize code generation as much as possible while ensuring serialization and maintaining good performance.
Since Prutal is NOT yet ready for production use, we are not providing usage documentation at this time, nor do we guarantee backward compatibility of the interface.
| Features | Prutal | Protobuf |
|---|---|---|
| Supported Languages | Go | C++, Java, Python, Go, and more |
| Code Generation | ✅ | ✅ |
| Generated Code Size | 😄 compact | 😡 bulky |
| Serialization | ✅ | ✅ |
| Performance | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Extensibility | 😄 Package | 😡 Plugin |
| Compatibility | ✅ (see Protobuf Compatibility) | ✅ |
| gRPC | 🚧 Coming soon | ✅ |
| Non-Pointer Field | ✅ (aka gogoproto.nullable) | ❌ |
- ✅ Works with code generated by the official Protocol Buffer Go
- ✅ Parsing .proto file. syntax: proto2, proto3, edition 2023
- ✅ Protobuf wire format
- double, float, bool, string, bytes
- int32, int64, uint32, uint64, sint32, sint64
- fixed32, fixed64, sfixed64, sfixed64
- enum
- repeated, map, oneof
- ✅ Packed / unpack (proto2)
- PACKED / EXPANDED (repeated field encoding, edition2023)
- ✅ Reserved
- ✅ Unknown Fields
⚠️ JSON support: JSON struct tag only⚠️ Code generation: Go only⚠️ Protocol buffers well-known types link- Prutal is able to generate code by reusing pkg
google.golang.org/protobuf/type - Features of type like
Anywould be limited.
- Prutal is able to generate code by reusing pkg
- ❌ Groups (proto2) link
- ❌ Overriding default scalar values (proto2, edition2023) link
Contributor guide: Contributing.
Prutal is licensed under the terms of the Apache license 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.
Dependencies used by prutal are listed under licenses.