Beyond JSON@iceX33Game developer at Wooga

What was the most discussed topic of Swift community?

JSON parsing!

What if I tell you there is another way?

Meet FlatBuffersIt was originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical applications.

FlatBuffersis an efficient cross platform serialization library for C++, Java, C#, Go, Python and JavaScript (C, PHP & Ruby in progress).

FlatBuffersSwift

What is so good about FlatBuffers?

There is no parsing involved!!!Reading data can be done lazy (almost zero cost)

It's backwards and forwards compatiblenew code can read old data

&old code can read new data

It's not human readableAnd it's a good thing! (Easy to encrypt and to compress)

FlatBuffers Swift has a really nice API:

let data = NSData(contentsOfFile: "contactList.bin")!let byteArray = UnsafePointer<UInt8>(data.bytes)

let contactList = ContactList.fromByteArray(byteArray)

if let birthday = contactList.entries[5]?.birthday { birthday.day = 12 birthday.month = 6}

let newData = config.toByteArray

If you are interested or want to get involved?https://github.com/mzaks/FlatBuffersSwift