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Armin Ronacher on experimental deserialization with Deser

Apr 15, 2022

01:09:14

Allen Wyma talks with Armin Ronacher, creator of Deser. Deser is an experimental serialization system for Rust.

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Timestamps

[@0:50] - Armin’s background
[@2:49] - The difference between Jinja & Jinja2
[@3:47] - What is Twig?
[@4:14] - Where did the names Jinja & Twig come from?
[@7:36] - What makes Jinja2 good in portablility?
[@12:46] - Armin’s programming history
[@16:07] - How did Armin go from Delphi to Python?
[@19:18] - The Pocoo team
[@23:25] - When did Armin start using Rust?
[@27:26] - The pros & cons of mixing Python and Rust together
[@36:14] - Stacktrace errors
[@41:41] - How does Armin deal with developers having different compilers in a working environment.
[@45:57] - Armin talks about Serde and other serialization challenges
[@55:33] - Serialization Frameworks
[@1:04:23] - Where to check out Armin’s library: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/deser
[@1:07:34] - Armin’s tips and tricks for people starting in Rust