serde alternative #38

BillyDM commented 2026年06月04日 21:55:30 +02:00

Given the latest controversies with serde, it would be nice to have an alternative serialization system (either to replace serde or as an optional feature flag).

A good candidate is rkyv.

(I'd prefer not to use facet since it heavily uses AI now.)

Given the latest controversies with serde, it would be nice to have an alternative serialization system (either to replace serde or as an optional feature flag). A good candidate is [rkyv](https://crates.io/crates/rkyv). (I'd prefer not to use [facet](https://crates.io/crates/facet) since it heavily uses AI now.)

JuxGD commented 2026年06月04日 22:08:05 +02:00

based maintainer

based maintainer

wrl commented 2026年06月04日 23:13:32 +02:00

i've been having a good time with rkyv but i'm not sure how "stable" the serialisation format is, both in terms of future versions of rkyv and future versions of a plugin's state.

might be good to look into nanoserde here.

i've been having a good time with rkyv but i'm not sure how "stable" the serialisation format is, both in terms of future versions of rkyv and future versions of a plugin's state. might be good to look into nanoserde here.

BillyDM commented 2026年06月04日 23:46:01 +02:00

Oh, I haven't heard of nanoserde. I'll check it out!

Oh, I haven't heard of nanoserde. I'll check it out!

BillyDM commented 2026年06月05日 20:16:28 +02:00

Oh, apparently it's not just serde, but also syn, quote, anyhow, thiserror, semver, etc. (nice-plug currently uses all of those directly.)

So unless we run into fundamental technical problems with those crates, it would probably be too much effort to move off of those.

Oh, apparently it's not just serde, but also syn, quote, anyhow, thiserror, semver, etc. (nice-plug currently uses all of those directly.) So unless we run into fundamental technical problems with those crates, it would probably be too much effort to move off of those.