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nelexa/buffer
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Reading And Writing Binary Data (incl. primitive types, ex. byte, ubyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, float, double). The classes also help with porting the I/O operations of the JAVA code.

1.3.0(6y ago)33521.7k↓17.9%[2 PRs](https://github.com/Ne-Lexa/php-byte-buffer/pulls)3MITPHP >=5.4

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###  Health Score

38

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LowBetter than 85% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity43

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

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

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~164 days

Recently: every ~236 days

Total

7

Last Release

2550d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3

1.2.1PHP >=5.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![Ne-Lexa](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17830391?v=4)](https://github.com/Ne-Lexa "Ne-Lexa (32 commits)")

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Tags

iobinaryDoublefloatshortbytelongunpackpackintjavaprimitiveuintubyteushort

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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