[vkaku]

I definitely think more work on serialization is welcome. For me, memcpy is fast - but handing off via shared memory is even faster, and then dereference; Zoned pointers are always the secret sauce to fastest ser-de.

I think the real issue that one really needs to solve is to add support for various languages and bother about wire compatibility between little, big and other messy endians. Add those things, the benchmarks start failing. The point of serialization is interop, not just rust-op. :)

Don't get me wrong, I was working with the colfer project on Github, and I definitely love all good work on serialization. Especially compression during serialization. Do start creating a spec and invite more language implementations. Thanks!

[taintegral]

I actually agree with you; these are serialization issues that are very important to solve. I wrote a little about endianness and how it could be approached in the book FAQ [1]. rkyv's open type system enables a lot of really powerful extensions to the core library.

> The point of serialization is interop, not just rust-op. :)

I'm not personally interested in adding support for other languages, but I have been careful not to do anything that would make it especially difficult for someone else to do so. There's no reason why it being language-specific is so bad either, especially if it can take advantage of unique features to make it more expressive and performant.

[1] https://davidkoloski.me/rkyv/faq.html