Another serialization topic, reduced scope

[JN]

On Sunday, 8 December 2019 at 22:00:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> Part of me really likes the idea of a universal UDA system for 
> serialization, to make things more general. But the other part 
> of me feels like it's not a problem that can be solved 
> universally -- it needs a local aspect. Is there a way to make 
> it work both ways?
>
> -Steve

I think serde in Rust is a good reference to look around. It's 
the de facto way of doing serialization in Rust and they have a 
list of attributes that are available: 
https://serde.rs/attributes.html