Comment by otabdeveloper2

It's insane that with this proliferation of serialization libraries none of them are still usable for real-world work.

Here in 2018, we still have to roll our own.

Libnop has the right idea, but still fails on two important points:

a) Versioning is a must-have feature. (And no, some weird non-standard 'table' type is not a replacement.)

b) The wire protocol needs to be human-readable ASCII. (Or at least a human-readable ASCII with no performance degradation option must be available.)