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Wouter van Oortmerssen edited this page May 21, 2021 · 5 revisions

This is a long topic, but one thing to highlight is the range of possible use cases you address with the whole FlatBuffers eco-system:

<-- speed(C++) -------------------------- flexibity -->
   -flatb-structs-
              ------flatbuffer-tables------
                                       -flexbuffers-
-structs-
           -capnproto-
                             ---protobuf---
                                        -----json------

Meaning even if you don't need to be particularly fast or flexible with your current use-case, FlatBuffers scales in every direction, with more representation choices than any other serialization system.

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