Serialization - npalko/npalko.github.com GitHub Wiki

Fast, space-efficient multi-language, multi-platform serialization is an interest of mine. There seem to be three worthwhile open source solutions:

  • Protobuf
  • Msgpack
  • ZeroC

The real annoying thing is that neither Protobuf nor Msgpack have datatypes for

  • Fixed point decimals
  • DateTime