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Developer Armin Ronacher has published a lengthy write-up on Deser, an experimental project rethinking how serialization works in the Rust programming language. The piece examines the limitations of existing approaches like Serde and proposes an alternative design. The article is drawing attention from Rust developers debating whether the ecosystem's dominant serialization model needs rethinking.
- 2Photographer pairs mushroom with light bulb in playful macro shot●Glühbirnen und Pilze haben selten etwas geneinsam. Hier ist aber doch immerhin die Grösse ähnlich. Ausserdem würde mich
A photographer has shared a macro image playing on the unlikely resemblance between a light bulb and a mushroom, noting that their size is at least similar. The picture shows a tiny mushroom framed inside a bulb, with the artist joking about why the figure inside looks so intently into the shrub. Viewers are engaging with the whimsical composition and the question of what the man in the bulb is staring at.
- 3Deser project rethinks Rust serialization▼Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/ # Rust # Programming # OpenSource
Armin Ronacher, the developer behind Flask and other well-known open source tools, has published an essay outlining Deser, a new approach to serialization in Rust. The piece questions how the widely used serde ecosystem is designed and argues for rethinking the way Rust handles data formats. Developers on programming forums are sharing and debating the ideas, with some welcoming fresh thinking on a foundational part of the Rust toolchain and others defending the status quo.