std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[John Colvin]

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 08:29:37 UTC, glycerine wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 13:43:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 13:28:42 UTC, glycerine wrote:
>>> Wishful thinking aside, they are competitors.
>>
>> They are not. `std.serialization` does not and should not 
>> compete in Thrift domain.
>
> Huh? Do you know what thrift does? Summary: Everything that
> Orange/std.serialization does and more. To the point: Thrift
> provides data versioning, std.serialization does not. In my 
> book:
> end of story, game over. Thrift is preffered choice.

Thrift is the preferred choice when choosing a library for ALL 
your possible serialization needs and more. However, standard 
library modules are not about including every possible 
convenience, it's about providing solid building blocks for 
creating larger frameworks.

What you're suggesting leads directly to the clearly idiotic like 
"std.stdio sucks because it's doesn't have a printRainbows 
feature"