tokio-rs/prost
PROST! a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 151 days ago, with 161 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Generates idiomatic Rust code from Protocol Buffers proto2 and proto3 files for serialization and deserialization.
- Produces simple, readable Rust types with preserved comments and supports no_std environments for embedded or constrained systems.
- Use for building efficient, type-safe Rust applications that communicate via Protocol Buffers messages.
- Use for integrating existing Rust types with Protobuf serialization by adding derive macros and field annotations.
- Use for generating Rust modules organized by Protobuf package specifiers to maintain clean code structure.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
prostis a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language.prostgenerates simple, idiomatic Rust code fromproto2andproto3files.Compared to other Protocol Buffers implementations,
prostFirst, add
prostand its public dependencies to yourCargo.toml:The recommended way to add
.protocompilation to a Cargo project is to use theprost-buildlibrary. See theprost-builddocumentation for more details and examples.See the snazzy repository for a simple start-to-finish example.
prostfollows thetokio-rsproject's MSRV model and supports 1.82. For more information on the tokio msrv policy you can check it out here
Daily snapshots
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Forks
657+24
Open issues
253+16
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| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| tokio-rs/prost | 4.8K | — | 47 | 151 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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