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Wouter van Oortmerssenf6240652016-07-27 17:34:00 -07001![logo](http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/fpl_logo_small.png) FlatBuffers
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Wouter van Oortmerssenf6240652016-07-27 17:34:00 -070010
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070011**FlatBuffers** is a cross platform serialization library architected for
12maximum memory efficiency. It allows you to directly access serialized data without parsing/unpacking it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.
Wouter van Oortmerssen26a30732014-01-27 16:52:49 -080013
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053014**Go to our [landing page][] to browse our documentation.**
Wouter van Oortmerssen26a30732014-01-27 16:52:49 -080015
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053016## Supported operating systems
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053017* Windows
18* MacOS X
19* Linux
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070020* Android
21* And any others with a recent C++ compiler.
Wouter van Oortmerssenf6240652016-07-27 17:34:00 -070022
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053023## Supported programming languages
24* C++
25* C#
Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen9b8c91c2016-03-26 09:22:56 +010026* C
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070027* Dart
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053028* Go
29* Java
30* JavaScript
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070031* Lobster
32* Lua
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053033* PHP
34* Python
Robert919c9292018-09-03 23:38:41 -070035* Rust
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070036* TypeScript
franchuti68823f75f52015-04-01 12:35:37 +020037
Wouter van Oortmerssen873a60b2018-09-21 10:42:00 -070038*and more in progress...*
franchuti68823f75f52015-04-01 12:35:37 +020039
Wouter van Oortmerssenf6240652016-07-27 17:34:00 -070040## Contribution
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053041* [FlatBuffers Google Group][] to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
42* [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker][] to submit an issue.
43* [stackoverflow.com][] with [`flatbuffers` tag][] for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.
franchuti68823f75f52015-04-01 12:35:37 +020044
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053045*To contribute to this project,* see [CONTRIBUTING][].
Wouter van Oortmerssen26a30732014-01-27 16:52:49 -080046
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053047## Licensing
48*Flatbuffers* is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE][] for the full license text.
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Mark Klara69a31b82015-12-03 20:30:54 -080050<br>
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Morton Fox58924532016-07-16 00:26:50 -040052 [CONTRIBUTING]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Mark Klara69a31b82015-12-03 20:30:54 -080053 [`flatbuffers` tag]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flatbuffers
artiomb49a7d12016-03-08 23:57:12 +000054 [FlatBuffers Google Group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flatbuffers
Mark Klara69a31b82015-12-03 20:30:54 -080055 [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues
Wouter van Oortmerssen86992472017-03-29 11:58:42 -070056 [stackoverflow.com]: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=flatbuffers
Steve Barman06d32292018-05-31 12:37:51 -040057 [landing page]: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers
Mandar8b4c0b92016-01-22 22:27:47 +053058 [LICENSE]: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/LICENSE.txt