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Robert 3c54fd964b Port FlatBuffers to Rust (#4898 )

This is a port of FlatBuffers to Rust. It provides code generation and a
runtime library derived from the C++ implementation. It utilizes the
Rust type system to provide safe and fast traversal of FlatBuffers data.

There are 188 tests, including many fuzz tests of roundtrips for various
serialization scenarios. Initial benchmarks indicate that the canonical
example payload can be written in ~700ns, and traversed in ~100ns.

Rustaceans may be interested in the Follow, Push, and SafeSliceAccess
traits. These traits lift traversals, reads, writes, and slice accesses
into the type system, providing abstraction with no runtime penalty.

2018-09-02 18:26:55 -07:00

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Platform / Language / Feature support

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
Codegen for all basic features	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	WiP	Yes	Yes	Yes
JSON parsing	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Simple mutation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Reflection	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Basic	No	No	No	No
Buffer verifier	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Testing: basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Testing: fuzz	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	No	No	Yes
Performance:	Superb	Great	Great	Great	Ok	?	?	Superb	?	?	Great	Superb
Platform: Windows	VS2010	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	VS2010	?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platform: Linux	GCC282	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platform: OS X	Xcode4	?	?	?	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platform: Android	NDK10d	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Flutter	Yes	?
Platform: iOS	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Flutter	Yes	?
Engine: Unity	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	No	?
Primary authors (github)	aard*	aard*	ev/js	rw	rw	evanw/ev*	kr*	mik*	ch*	dnfield	aard*	rw

aard = aardappel (previously: gwvo)
ev = evolutional
js = jonsimantov
mik = mikkelfj
ch = chobie
kr = krojew

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