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The last time I looked at upb, it only supported parsing, which was a deal-breaker. Have you implemented serializing since then? It's hard to tell from the git log, which is mostly "dump from google internal sources XX-YY-ZZZZ".

I'm very excited about upb! Thanks for your work on it over the years. Do you have any tasks that an outside contributor could help with?

Thanks!

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Still no serialization, sorry. This is getting close to being my top priority though. It's a hard problem to design the kind of generic visitor I want while being speed-competitive with the fastest stuff that's out there.

Probably can't use a lot of outside help, but thanks for asking. What's taking so long is a very intense process of refining the design. I am often reminded of this bit from "Worse is Better":

"The right thing takes forever to design, but it is quite small at every point along the way."

This is exactly the approach I am taking. It's taken forever to design, but over time it becomes more and more capable without the core growing in size very much. I hope that this intensive design work will pay off soon.

Thanks for your interest and I hope to soon be able to reward it with a highly compelling parsing/serialization experience!

Awesome, looking forward to that day :). Keep up the great work.

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