Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
6.7 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth 8
novelty 7
actionability 6
community 7
strategic 5
personal 5
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Covers a new Rust serialization library with technical depth and community interest.
Summary
Serdeis 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. Here are three examples of Serde corner cases that show poor interactions of Serde features or unexpected limitations: