Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

What happened

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but actually replacing Serde is tricky because of the might that it has in the ecosystem. Also because it’s quite hard to actually do better without also making some potentially painful compromises.

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Timeline

1. 21:48
   First appeared on Hacker NewsHHacker News
2. 22:02
   Discussion started on LobstersLLobsters

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