venial VS miniserde

Compare venial vs miniserde and see what are their differences.

miniserde

Data structure serialization library with several opposite design goals from Serde (by dtolnay)
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venial miniserde
5 4
181 724
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7.3 7.7
about 1 month ago 10 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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venial

Posts with mentions or reviews of venial. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.

miniserde

Posts with mentions or reviews of miniserde. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-21.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (8/2023)!
    11 projects | /r/rust | 21 Feb 2023
    It's pretty common to avoid macros as they can seem too magical a lot of the time. And with traits, there's experiments like miniserde which specifically avoid monomorphization overhead. I also see people who want to avoid having lots of dependencies relatively often.
  • venial 0.1 - A lightweight alternative to syn
    5 projects | /r/rust | 10 Mar 2022
    Right now, the next step would be to try to reimplement miniserde with venial, and publish benchmarks.
  • Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
    17 projects | /r/programming | 7 Dec 2021
  • The Serde Rust Framework
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021
    The only downside is compile time bloat.

    Serde generates heaps and heaps of generic code. This gets optimized away to be very efficient, but it can be quite cumbersome.

    Ever tried working on a crate with hundreds or thousands of de/serializable types? Compile times shoot through the roof really quickly.

    The maintainer of serde also created `miniserde` [1], which uses dynamic dispatch and can have 4x compile time improvements.

    Due to Rusts lack of orphan instances you really depend on a pervasive standard for serializiation which is used by all libraries, so the ecosystem is really locked in to serde by now.

    [1] https://github.com/dtolnay/miniserde

What are some alternatives?

When comparing venial and miniserde you can also consider the following projects:

darling - A Rust proc-macro attribute parser

nanoserde - Serialisation library with zero dependencies

ComLightInterop - Cross-platform COM interop library for .NET Core 2.1 or newer

bpaf - Command line parser with applicative interface

serde_v8 - Moved to https://github.com/denoland/deno

rustc-dev-guide - A guide to how rustc works and how to contribute to it.

pfr - std::tuple like methods for user defined types without any macro or boilerplate code

argparse-rosetta-rs - Comparing argparse APIs

serde - Serialization framework for Rust

validator - Simple validation for Rust structs

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