1![logo](http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/fpl_logo_small.png) FlatBuffers 2=========== 3 4[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/flatbuffers.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/flatbuffers) 5[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/yg5idd2fnusv1n10?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gwvo/flatbuffers) 6[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/google/flatbuffers](https://badges.gitter.im/google/flatbuffers.svg)](https://gitter.im/google/flatbuffers?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) 7[![Discord Chat](https://img.shields.io/discord/656202785926152206.svg)](https:///discord.gg/6qgKs3R) 8[![Twitter Follow](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/wvo.svg?style=social)](https://twitter.com/wvo) 9 10 11**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. 13 14**Go to our [landing page][] to browse our documentation.** 15 16## Supported operating systems 17* Windows 18* MacOS X 19* Linux 20* Android 21* And any others with a recent C++ compiler. 22 23## Supported programming languages 24* C++ 25* C# 26* C 27* Dart 28* Go 29* Java 30* JavaScript 31* Lobster 32* Lua 33* PHP 34* Python 35* Rust 36* TypeScript 37 38*and more in progress...* 39 40## Contribution 41* [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. 44 45*To contribute to this project,* see [CONTRIBUTING][]. 46 47## Licensing 48*Flatbuffers* is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE][] for the full license text. 49 50<br> 51 52 [CONTRIBUTING]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md 53 [`flatbuffers` tag]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flatbuffers 54 [FlatBuffers Google Group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flatbuffers 55 [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues 56 [stackoverflow.com]: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=flatbuffers 57 [landing page]: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers 58 [LICENSE]: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/LICENSE.txt 59