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FlatBuffers is an open source, cross-platform serialization library designed for maximum memory efficiency. Originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical apps, FlatBuffers has the unique ability of allowing you to directly access serialized data without having to parse or unpack beforehand. Since the only memory needed to access your data is that of the buffer, it is also very memory efficient and fast.
FlatBuffers supports Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android, as well as any other operating systems with a recent C++ compiler. It supports a great number of programming languages, including C++, C#, C, Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Lobster, Lua, TypeScript, PHP and many others in progress.
Features
- Allows access to serialized data without parsing/unpacking
- Memory efficient and fast
- Flexible - optional fields offer great forwards and backwards compatibility, and plenty of choices for data
- Tiny code footprint
- Strongly typed
- Convenient - generated C++ code allows for terse access & construction code
- Cross platform code with no dependencies
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