What part of the industry are you in where flatbuffers is seen as the de facto standard? Personally I've never randomly encountered a project using flatbuffers. I see protobuf all the time.
(I've randomly run into Cap'n Proto maybe 2-3 times but to be fair I'm probably more likely to notice that.)
As of the last time I was close, flatbuffer usage is or was near ubiquitous for use in FB's (ha ha, go figure) mobile apps, across Android and iOS at least.
Re:Cap'n Proto 1.0
by cmrdporcupine on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:51PM
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Flatbuffers seems to have penetration in the games industry. And it sounds like from other posters that Facebook uses it.
I recently started a job doing work on autonomy systems that run in tractors, and was surprised to see we use it (flatbuffers) in the messaging layer (in both C++ and Rust)
It has established itself as the de-facto standard, with a few o