FlatBuffers alternatives and similar libraries
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Magic Enum C++
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code -
Bond
Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services. -
Nameof C++
Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum -
Simple C++ Serialization & Reflection.
Cista is a simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library. -
cppcodec
Header-only C++11 library to encode/decode base64, base64url, base32, base32hex and hex (a.k.a. base16) as specified in RFC 4648, plus Crockford's base32. MIT licensed with consistent, flexible API.
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README
FlatBuffers
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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
- Swift
- 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](SECURITY.md) for reporting vulnerabilities.
Licensing
Flatbuffers is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the FlatBuffers README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.