| Platform / Language / Feature support {#flatbuffers_support} | |
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| FlatBuffers is actively being worked on, which means that certain platform / | |
| language / feature combinations may not be available yet. | |
| This page tries to track those issues, to make informed decisions easier. | |
| In general: | |
| * Languages: language support beyond the ones created by the original | |
| FlatBuffer authors typically depends on community contributions. | |
| * Features: C++ was the first language supported, since our original | |
| target was high performance game development. It thus has the richest | |
| feature set, and is likely most robust. Other languages are catching up | |
| however. | |
| * Platforms: All language implementations are typically portable to most | |
| platforms, unless where noted otherwise. | |
| NOTE: this table is a start, it needs to be extended. | |
| Feature | C++ | Java | C# | Go | Python | JS | TS | C | PHP | Dart | Lobster | Rust | Swift | |
| ------------------------------ | ------ | ----- | -------- | ----- | ------ | ----- | --- | ------ | --- | ------- | ------- | ------ | ------ | |
| Codegen for all basic features | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | WiP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| JSON parsing | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Simple mutation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Reflection | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Basic | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Buffer verifier | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Native Object API | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Optional Scalars | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flexbuffers | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| Testing: basic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Testing: fuzz | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Performance: | Superb | Great | Great | Great | Ok | ? | ? | Superb | ? | ? | Great | Superb | Great | |
| Platform: Windows | VS2010 | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | VS2010 | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Platform: Linux | GCC282 | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Platform: OS X | Xcode4 | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Platform: Android | NDK10d | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Flutter | Yes | ? | No | |
| Platform: iOS | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Flutter | Yes | ? | Yes | |
| Engine: Unity | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | No | |
| Primary authors (github) | aard | aard | ev/js/df | rw | rw | ew/ev | kr | mik | ch | df | aard | rw/cn | mi/mz | |
| Above | Github username | |
| ----- | ----------------------------- | |
| aard | aardappel (previously: gwvo) | |
| ch | chobie | |
| cn | caspern | |
| df | dnfield | |
| ev | evolutional | |
| ew | evanw | |
| js | jonsimantov | |
| kr | krojew | |
| mi | mustiikhalil | |
| mik | mikkelfj | |
| mz | mzaks | |
| rw | rw | |
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