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Deser examines Serde’s serialization edge cases and trade-offs

lucumr.pocoo.org 14 min read Editor score 6/10

The piece uses cases involving arbitrary-precision numbers and internally tagged enums to show limitations in Serde’s data model. Engineers designing Rust serialization APIs can learn where feature interactions become surprising.

What

Deser is an experimental Rust serialization library intended to offer Serde-like usability on a different architecture.

How

The post describes Serde edge cases involving arbitrary-precision numbers, flattened integer keys, and adapters that do not compose.

Why it matters

These examples show how serialization design choices affect compatibility and the composability of data-handling code.

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