std.jgrandson

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On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 08:04:40 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> API looks great but I'd like to see some simple 
> serialize/deserialize
> functions as in vibed:
> http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/deserializeJson
> http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/serializeToJson

Before going this route one needs to have a good vision how it 
may interact with imaginary std.serialization to avoid later 
deprecation.

At the same time I have recently started to think that dedicated 
serialization module that decouples aggregate iteration from data 
storage format is in most cases impractical for performance 
reasons - different serialization methods imply very different 
efficient iteration strategies. Probably it is better to define 
serialization compile-time traits instead and require each 
`std.data.*` provider to implement those on its own in the most 
effective fashion.