On Friday, 16 July 2021 at 16:54:18 UTC, Scotpip wrote:
Yup - I have it running now but the code does seem to be a bit
neglected and I'm seeing a depreciation warning too. I chose it
because it's much the most downloaded serialisation package and
is used in a couple of other popular packages. But it seems to
be moribund...
The deprecation message is from the most recent dmd release:
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.097.0.html#body-deprecation
It's been a year since the last commit (which actually involved
linking with winsock...), but I wouldn't write it off as near
death just yet.
I simply need a fast binary serialisation lib to read and write
a large list of structs to local disk - it's not for inter-app
communication. The struct is simple and only contains primitive
D data types. If you are aware of any package that would be a
better bet I'd appreciate your advice. Or is there a more
direct way to dump a list from memory to disk and read it back
again? This is the kind of low-level stuff that's rather new to
me...
I haven't had occasion to make use of any serialization libraries
myself, but you can start here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Serialization_Libraries
