Unpacking Serde

[epage]

At the first meetup, I showed a little bit of serde and it seemed there was a lot of interest in learning more about what serde can do and best practices.

[ErichDonGubler]

I'll be presenting this tonight for meetup 12 (#28).

[ErichDonGubler]

I'll be continuing this content with next week's meetup -- woot!

[ErichDonGubler]

Is there anything left here to go over? Here's what I've already presented:

• Presentation #1 goes over the basic usage of the Serde derive macro with just structs, complete with sample input and output for several usages of common configuration.

• Presentation #2 introduces the usage of enums and different tagging strategies.

Next steps could be slides discussing:

• Writing one's own custom deserialization logic (i.e., implementing Serialize and Deserialize by hand). It's pretty nice to be able to do that when one's writing nontrivial newtypes, or if the format of some data is dynamic enough that it's easier just to use some code to describe it.
• Writing one's own serialization format. I'd consider this unlikely to be interesting for the audience the initial slides were prepared for, but it'd be complete!

I'm going to plan on doing #3 (this September meeting), unless some feedback here dictates otherwise.