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 X
• Linux
• Android
• And any others with a recent C++ compiler.

Supported programming languages

• C++
• C#
• C
• Dart
• Go
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lobster
• Lua
• PHP
• Python
• Rust
• TypeScript

and more in progress...

Contribution

• FlatBuffers Google Group to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
• FlatBuffers Issues Tracker to submit an issue.
• stackoverflow.com with flatbuffers tag for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.

To contribute to this project, see CONTRIBUTING.

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.