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@Oktokolo
golang has this in the base libraries.
for xml, json, and yaml.
All use the same pattern of Marshal/Unmarshal. Using byte arrays.
I think the Golang serialization API is utter garbage.
By convention it usually looks like this,
MarshalFormat() ([]byte,error)
UnmarshalFormat([]byte) error
This means that all serialization and deserialization is done on, heap allocated, in memory buffers ( technically also mmaped files, but thats not cross platform).
As the Go GC is ruthlessly optimized for minimum latency, this can potentially cause memory leaks in long running applications.
I think we need a new serialization API that looks more like
SerializeFormat(io.Writer) error
DeserializeFormat(io.Reader) error
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