3 engineers on Hacker News describe using FlatBuffers first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Luckily, flatbuffers allows for progressive enhancement, but I digress”
endorse · production · yc-kraln · 2025-05-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to flatbuffers and back to JSON because in the end of the day, for our data... 10-20 times faster to decode.”
regret · production · franciscop · 2023-01-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Flatbuffers for every request and to spend no cost in serialization as we turn every user request into 100s”
endorse · production · ra-mos · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?