I agree that the stdlib decoder functions aren't the most ergonomic, but I think people are aware it's a pain point and there is development in that are, these

I agree that the stdlib decoder functions aren't the most ergonomic, but I think people are aware it's a pain point and there is development in that are, these two packages for example: https://hexdocs.pm/decode https://hexdocs.pm/decode https://hexdocs.pm/toy/ https://hexdocs.pm/toy/