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Varint stream processor

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Varint stream processing library
================================

[](#varint-stream-processing-library)

Varint streams can be used to delimit binary messages without expending the stream size significantly. They are especially useful for message formats without inherent delimiting (e.g. protobuf).

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Decoding a stream as strings

[](#decoding-a-stream-as-strings)

```
use Cjm\Varint\Stream\Decoder;

$decoder = Decoder::fromPath('php://stdin');

foreach($decoder->strings() as $string) {
   // do something with the message
}

```

###  Health Score

17

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LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity30

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

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