Why is vibe.d json serializer/deserializer so complex?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 22:42:20 UTC, James Blachly wrote:

> So I've been meaning to ask this as I have been learning Rust 
> off-and-on recently for web development, and was impressed by 
> the traits functionality. In particular, with traits and some 
> agreed upon API, many packages are interchangeable in terms of 
> various functionalities, including JSON 
> serialization/deserialization.
>
> What would be the nearest analog facility in D -- supposing we 
> could agree on a standard API -- to facilitate pluggable 
> serializers?
>
> I am a big fan of asdf (and Steve, haven't tried iopipejson 
> yet, but will do). It would be nice to not rewrite code to try 
> a different serializer, and Rust is really neat in this regard.

Well I was putting this together, but didn't want to attempt 
submission until I felt I would be able to put in the time for 
the review process

https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/DIPs/blob/serialize/attribute/DIPs/1NNN-jkp.md