Beyond JSON @ dot swift 2016

Beyond JSON @ dot swift 2016

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  Beyond JSON @iceX33
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  What was themost discussed topic of Swift community?
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  JSON parsing!
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  What if Itell you there is another way?
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  Meet FlatBuffers It wasoriginally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical applications.
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  FlatBuffers is an efficientcross platform serialization library for C++, Java, C#, Go, Python and JavaScript (C, PHP & Ruby in progress).
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  FlatBuffersSwift
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  What is sogood about FlatBuffers?
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  There is noparsing involved!!! Reading data can be done lazy (almost zero cost)
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  It's backwards and forwardscompatible new code can read old data & old code can read new data
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  It's not humanreadable And it's a good thing! (Easy to encrypt and to compress)
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  { "name": "maxim", "age" :34 }
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  12, 0, 0,0, 8, 0, 12, 0, 4, 0, 8, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 34, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 109, 97, 120, 105, 109
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  FlatBuffers Swift hasa really nice API: let person = Person(name: "maxim", age: 34) person.toByteArray
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  FlatBuffers Swift hasa really nice API: let person = Person.LazyAccess(data: fbData) let age = person.age
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  If you areinterested or want to get involved? https://github.com/mzaks/ FlatBuffersSwift
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  Thank you @iceX33