Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Buf
A new way of working with Protocol Buffers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Buf launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Protobuf is a fairly simple format, but the way people are first introduced to it often doesn't speak to them. That is how it was for me at first. I tried to address that in two ways: simple visual diagrams where a picture does the work better than prose, and interaction so you can get a feel for the language and how it behaves without installing anything. Some parts of the guide run a real Protobuf compiler, bufbuild/protocompile, in the browser through WASM. It's the same compiler the buf CLI uses. Feedback welcome. Disclosure: I work at Buf, and Buf owns the domain. The guide started…
Aug 2026 · protobuf.com · its alternatives →
- 2AW
Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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protoCURL is cURL for Protobuf: The command-line tool for interacting with Protobuf over HTTP REST endpoints using human-readable text formats - qaware/protocurl
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4PP
2022 · pbkit.dev · its alternatives →
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A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer - sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Generate a protocol buffer schema from a MySQL database schema - mcos/schemabuf
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 7CC
Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…
2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →
- 8PB
Hi HN, have been working on this as a side project, would appreciate any feedback :) LogUnify is built around schemas based on protobuf and all the events in LogUnify are structured. By schematizing events, we offer the following benefits: - Consistency: All the events across all platforms and languages are produced in a uniform way with the generated type-safe SDKs, which ensures data consistency from the root. - Shared Understanding: Event schemas with rich data types and metadata are self-explained, which enables different departments from developers to business stakeholders to share the…
2023 · logunify.com · its alternatives →
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Why I built Skir: https://medium.com/@gepheum/i-spent-15-years-with-protobuf-t... Quick start: npx skir init All the config lives in one YML file. Website: https://skir.build GitHub: https://github.com/gepheum/skir Would love feedback especially from teams running mixed-language stacks.
Mar 2026 · skir.build · its alternatives →
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🛫 Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript `type` inference from protobuf `message`s - nathanhleung/protobuf-ts-types
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Prototyp▲115Free tool based on Framer.js to create awesome interactions
2016 · bcgame-hindi.in.net · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've built an app for macOS that allows performing common SSH operations on Linux servers using a native GUI. The problem: Managing multiple Linux servers usually means juggling terminal windows and copy-pasting snippets/scripts. After dealing with tens of production/staging VPSes at previous jobs, I realized there had to be a better way for common operations I did on a daily basis than my collection of bash snippets. Features: - Quickly switch between different servers. Tag servers with arbitrary key values for easy search. - Real-time dashboard with CPU/memory graphs,…
2025 · serverbuddy.app · its alternatives →
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Google Protocol Buffers tools (C code generator). Contribute to eerimoq/pbtools development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Molecule is a Go library for parsing protobufs in an efficient and zero-allocation manner. - GitHub - richardartoul/molecule: Molecule is a Go library for parsing protobufs in an efficient and zero-allocation manner.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 17CT
Hey HN! I’m Zach, from Coherence (https://www.withcoherence.com/). We’re building software that provides an integrated way to write, preview, and deploy code from one simple configuration. Check out our explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YHVx8QsLg and a high level demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/072c2afd1099496298f69ab21fdf2820 We started Coherence because we found technology teams spent 30-40% of their time yak shaving and writing glue code, instead of building products our customers love. We don’t think every team…
2022 · its alternatives →
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I've been presenting at local meetups about Context Engineering, RAG, Skills, etc.. I even have a vbrownbag coming up on LinkedIn about this topic so I figured I would make a basic example that uses bedrock so I can use it in my talks or vbrownbags. Hopefully it's useful.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cross-language, zero-copy coroutine observability framework based on the cTP shared-memory protocol, utilizing lock-free ring buffers for ultra-low overhead state tracing. - lixiasky-back/coroTracer
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Protobuf3 with Interface support - Designed for blockchains (deterministic, upgradeable, fast, and compact) - tendermint/go-amino
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21PP
2017 · afiskon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Simple, reliable, interoperable. A better gRPC.
2022 · connectrpc.com · its alternatives →
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Get your database software prototypes fast
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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