Serde creator here. Steve's right, serde is fundamentally a generic protocol that implements serialization. I didn't use nom for serde_json (because it didn't e

Serde creator here. Steve's right, serde is fundamentally a generic protocol that implements serialization. I didn't use nom for serde_json (because it didn't exist at the time) but it's definitely possible to use nom and other parser generators to implement the serde protocol.