> Serde can kind of do this for rust projects, but you're usually constrained to outputs that are "identical but for the syntax/format" (i.e. same field names t

> Serde can kind of do this for rust projects, but you're usually constrained to outputs that are "identical but for the syntax/format" (i.e. same field names though perhaps with different naming conventions). Libxo’s distinguishing feature (IMO) is that its schema specifications are plaintext output with markup specifying which parts are data to be extracted into structured formats, so that you can port your usual Unix tool to it and not ruin its original ad-hoc output. I don’t know of anything positioned as a serialization library that can do this with comparable grace, Serde included. Related: the section on marking up plaintext output in the Ivo essay[1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111204021526/http://lubutu.com/idea/ivo https://web.archive.org/web/20111204021526/http://lubutu.com... (discussed at the time at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300264)