FlatBuffers

FlatBuffers is a cross platform serialization library architected for maximum memory efficiency. It allows you to directly access serialized data without parsing/unpacking it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.

Go to our landing page to browse our documentation.

Supported operating systems

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
And any others with a recent C++ compiler (C++ 11 and newer)

Supported programming languages

Code generation and runtime libraries for many popular languages.

C
C++ - snapcraft.io
C# - nuget.org
Dart - pub.dev
Go - go.dev
Java - Maven
JavaScript - NPM
Kotlin
Lobster
Lua
PHP
Python - PyPi
Rust - crates.io
Swift - swiftpackageindex
TypeScript - NPM
Nim

Versioning

FlatBuffers does not follow traditional Semver versioning (see rationale) but rather uses a format of the date of the release.

Contribution

FlatBuffers Issues Tracker to submit an issue.
stackoverflow.com with flatbuffers tag for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.

To contribute to this project, see CONTRIBUTING.

Community

FlatBuffers Google Group to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
Discord Server
Gitter

Security

Please see our Security Policy for reporting vulnerabilities.

Licensing

Flatbuffers is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.

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Memory Efficient Serialization Library

http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

Apache License 2.0

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