I definitely think more work on serialization is welcome. For me, memcpy is fast - but handing off via shared memory is even faster, and then dereference; Zoned pointers are always the secret sauce to fastest ser-de.

I think the real issue that one really needs to solve is to add support for various languages and bother about wire compatibility between little, big and other messy endians. Add those things, the benchmarks start failing. The point of serialization is interop, not just rust-op. :)

Don't get me wrong, I was working with the colfer project on Github, and I definitely love all good work on serialization. Especially compression during serialization. Do start creating a spec and invite more language implementations. Thanks!