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Dynamo

Dynamo is a schemaless buffer serializer optimized for low overhead. You pass values; Dynamo picks a compact wire representation and tags each value so it can be reconstructed without a shared schema.

Basic workflow​

  1. Serialize one or more values into a buffer.
  2. Send or store that buffer.
  3. Deserialize the buffer back into values.
local Dynamo = require(path.to.Dynamo)

local encoded = Dynamo.Serialize1({
	Health = 100,
	Name = "Builder",
	Position = Vector3.new(4, 8, 15),
})

local decoded = Dynamo.Deserialize1(encoded)
print(decoded.Name, decoded.Health, decoded.Position)

Unlike schema-driven libraries, the buffer is self-describing at the type level: each value begins with a type tag, then its payload. Nested tables, arrays, and maps carry tags for every element and key.

What Dynamo is for​

  • Dynamic payloads where a fixed schema would be awkward.
  • Mixed-type packets (Serialize / Deserialize accept multiple values).
  • Game datatypes such as Vector3, CFrame, Color3, UDim2, Enum, and Instance references.

Continue with Installation, then the API and Type catalog. Measured throughput and comparisons are in Benchmarks.