std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 19:47:32 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Versioning is an integral idea of formats like Protobuf and 
> Thrift. For example, see the "A bit of history" section right 
> on the doc overview page. [1] You might also want to read 
> through the (rather dated) Thrift whitepaper to get an idea 
> about what the design constraints for it were. [2]

By the way, to be honest, this is also the main point that makes 
me feel uneasy about including Orbit in Phobos at this point: 
Sure, it has been around for some time, but as far as I can tell, 
not a lot of people are using it right now, and what seems to be 
entirely missing from the docs is a clear design rationale, 
outlining its goals and explaining how Orbit compares to 
well-known existing solutions.

It seems to me that a large part of the discussion in this thread 
can be attributed to that fact, i.e. a lack of 
understanding/agreement what the module is supposed to be in the 
first place.

David