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Right, but isn't the struct definition equivalent in line count and effort compared to some typedefs and perhaps a handful of trivial-to-inspect oneline helper functions?

Regarding the UI8, don't you have to get your version's struct data member type correct to the exact same degree as a typedef in my suggestion?

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> don't you have to get your version's struct data member type correct

No, since Serde will happyly fill a `u64` field with any other `u{8,16,32}` value, and even with signed types (as long as the actual value is non-negative) - this is sort of what happens when you deserialize a JSON `[1, 2, 3]` into `[u64]`.

Yes, but an equivalent to `impl<'de> Deserializer<'de> for ValueDeserializer` handles that. That could be a useful helper.

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