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FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 5 stories, 17 comments · first 2014-07-02 · latest 2026-02-01

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  1. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/pull/8251 https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/pull/8252 Flatbuffers Lua implementation has basic fundamental flaws, couldn't even get an "idc" on their Discord
    comment by __s · 2026-02-01 · in Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up
  2. …[2]? [1] - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf : Google's data interchange format [2] - https://github.com/google/flatbuffers : Also maintained by Google
    comment by nindalf · 2026-01-23 · in Replacing Protobuf with Rust
  3. …understand. Though at least Go supports codegen properly with support in its official tooling. 1: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/src/idl_ge... 2: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/94675
    comment by elcritch · 2025-01-29 · in An update on Dart macros and data serialization
  4. …Examples of zero copy (de)serialization libraries: https://github.com/rkyv/rkyv https://github.com/google/flatbuffers https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto
    comment by cstrahan · 2024-10-03 · in Code Generation in Rust vs. C++26
  5. …is this required decoding/parsing that (largely) distinguishes protobuf from Google's flatbuffers: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers https://flatbuffers.dev/ Cap'n Proto (developed by Kenton Varda, the former Google engineer who, while…
    comment by cstrahan · 2024-06-27 · in gRPC: The Bad Parts
  6. …since he's been employed there) eventually turned into Cloudflare workers. Another consideration: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/2#issuecomment-...
    comment by coolsunglasses · 2023-07-28 · in Cap'n Proto 1.0
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    Ask HN: What happened to flatbuffers? Are they being used?
    story by wzvici · 2023-01-17 · 81 comments
  8. …as our Protobuf codec [0], but you'd use `FlatbuffersCodec.Marshal` and `FlatbuffersCodec.Unmarshal` (from github.com/google/flatbuffers/go). You _must_ have a `Codec`, but it looks like it should be pretty quick. 2. Ideally, you'd have a…
    comment by akshayshah · 2022-06-02 · in Connect: A Better gRPC
  9. …feels so much lighter than amazon, hbo or Hulu. They all freeze my Vizio TV but Netflix is smooth. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by nojvek · 2019-09-19 · in The cost of parsing JSON
  10. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by orangea · 2018-10-08 · in Libp2p – A modular network stack
  11. A similar tech is flatbuffers: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by isoos · 2018-09-02 · in Zero-copy deserialization in Julia
  12. …that comes with this - if you just need a serialization I think it's more approachable. [1] https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by rubber_duck · 2017-05-03 · in Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements
  13. As an FYI, GRPC support was added to flatbuffers a month ago. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/tree/master/grpc
    comment by forrestthewoods · 2016-07-29 · in Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released
  14. …I wonder if flatbuffers is being used by enough developers to justify significant development? https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by forrestthewoods · 2016-07-29 · in Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released
  15. …But people have certainly been thinking about this issue. [1] https://capnproto.org/ [2] https://github.com/google/flatbuffers
    comment by nostrademons · 2016-05-03 · in Go bindings to Rust's regex engine
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    FlatBuffers release 1.2.0
    story by gk1 · 2015-10-28 · 0 comments
  17. …repo on github continues a couple of "meta-trends" I've noticed in recent Google projects. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers First, it uses CMake to build - for a long time Google projects had seemed pretty anti-CMake (for example…
    comment by rquirk · 2015-08-01 · in Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
  18. …for that string. I imagine Google Play also scans for other libraries, open source or otherwise. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/include/fl...
    comment by kevb · 2014-10-26 · in Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative
  19. …the binary that matches the Flatbuffers version string format? Of course that's what's happening: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/include/fl...
    comment by subim · 2014-10-25 · in Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative
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    Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative
    story by halayli · 2014-10-25 · 31 comments
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    Google/flatbuffers – efficient serialization library
    story by Goosey · 2014-07-12 · 0 comments
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    Google FlatBuffers
    story by fooyc · 2014-07-02 · 0 comments