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Description
go-codec currently supports
- Binary: Msgpack
- Binary: CBOR
- Text: JSON
For completeness, it should support XML also.
Though XML has fallen out-of-favor, it is still widely used. The encoding/xml in the standard library is not efficient, and does not conform to the simplicity used in encoding/json. We have a chance to add a performant XML encoder/decoder as just another format.
We are attempting this due to perceived issues with encoding/xml:
- Complicated. It tried to do too much, and is not as simple to use as json.
- Due to over-engineering, reflection is over-used AND performance suffers:
java is 6X faster:http://fabsk.eu/blog/category/informatique/dev/golang/
even PYTHON performs better: http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2014/07/exploring-golang.html
codec framework will offer the following benefits
- VASTLY improved performance (when using reflection-mode or codecgen)
- simplicity and consistency: with the rest of the supported formats
- all other benefits of codec framework (streaming, codegeneration, etc)
go-codec is not a drop-in replacement for encoding/xml, as the tags and style will not transfer over.
Having said that, it is a replacement, based on the simplicity and performance of codec.
The goal is for this to be like JAXB for Go.