On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 12:52:45 UTC, Sean Campbell wrote:
I've been working on a new serialization module for Phobos and
its only reliant on 4 Phobos modules
it is available at
https://github.com/sycam0inc/phobos/blob/master/std/experimental/serialization.d
I would like some feedback on it
I'm biased since I wrote this:
https://github.com/atilaneves/cerealed.
At a glance, I don't like at all that types have to opt-in to be
serialised. Why the limitation?
You don't need reverseOf, just use std.range.retro.
Cerealed has more features than this as well. I'd struggle to
write code as short as I did when using it to implement
networking protocols. I also only encoded bytes as big-endian
since binary serialization is usually followed by sending those
bytes over the wire. Given you check the endianess of the system
here, how would that work?
I liked the union trick, I wonder why I didn't think of that.
Well, there's the endianness problem I guess.
Atila
