Open dieggsy opened 7 months ago
correct, there's improvements to be done in that area. There are some solutions under "persistent object DB" (even if those are not persistent DBs): cl-naive-store and clache (that uses cl-store). I think at the time I didn't mention cl-store because I didn't like its documentation, and IIRC clache is a bit more high-level.
For what it's worth, cl-store does appear to have had a bit more recent development than clache and I find its API more straightforward and focused. If someone just wants to serialize to disk, I think cl-store makes sense (and pulls in fewer dependencies)
For binary serialization, I recommend cl-conspack, which was inspired by MessagePack. The usage is very easy and it's very convenient to transfer data over networks, and some impls in other languages are also available.
There doesn't appear to be a section on serialization.
Maybe a whole extra section isn't necessary, but I think it would be nice to at least mention cl-store.