Orange 1.0.0 beta - serialization library

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:45:20 +0900, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 8/20/2011 12:50 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Masahiro Nakagawa seems to be working on msgpack:
>> https://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/msgpack4d/
>
> Yeah, this does look quite useful.  I tried it a few weeks ago and ran  
> into a couple showstopper bugs.  I filed them and he fixed them, but I  
> never got around to trying it again.
>
> I actually think that since both are very commonly needed things and  
> satisfy completely different niches, Orange and msgpack4d might both  
> eventually have a rightful place in Phobos.

I agree. In the past, I mentioned this point ;)

> Orange would be recommended when portability and serializing as many  
> types as possible are important, and msgpack4d would be recommended when  
> speed and space efficiency are the primary concerns.

Yes for MessagePack.
In addition, communicating other language is important like JSON.

P.S.
My D libraries moved to github. msgpack4d is here.

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d

FTTB, bitbucket is available.