1![logo](http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/fpl_logo_small.png) FlatBuffers 2=========== 3 4[![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) 5[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/flatbuffers.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/flatbuffers) [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/yg5idd2fnusv1n10?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gwvo/flatbuffers) 6 7**FlatBuffers** is a cross platform serialization library architected for 8maximum memory efficiency. It allows you to directly access serialized data without parsing/unpacking it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility. 9 10**Go to our [landing page][] to browse our documentation.** 11 12## Supported operating systems 13* Windows 14* MacOS X 15* Linux 16* Android 17* And any others with a recent C++ compiler. 18 19## Supported programming languages 20* C++ 21* C# 22* C 23* Dart 24* Go 25* Java 26* JavaScript 27* Lobster 28* Lua 29* PHP 30* Python 31* Rust 32* TypeScript 33 34*and more in progress...* 35 36## Contribution 37* [FlatBuffers Google Group][] to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users. 38* [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker][] to submit an issue. 39* [stackoverflow.com][] with [`flatbuffers` tag][] for any questions regarding FlatBuffers. 40 41*To contribute to this project,* see [CONTRIBUTING][]. 42 43## Licensing 44*Flatbuffers* is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE][] for the full license text. 45 46<br> 47 48 [CONTRIBUTING]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md 49 [`flatbuffers` tag]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flatbuffers 50 [FlatBuffers Google Group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flatbuffers 51 [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues 52 [stackoverflow.com]: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=flatbuffers 53 [landing page]: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers 54 [LICENSE]: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/LICENSE.txt 55