Effective serde By Writing Less Rust Code

For Vancouver Rust meetup 2019-04-17

Vancouver, BC Canada

Introduction

The example offered is a simple, realistic example of minimalist JSON file where:

1. Outer structure is an object (not an array).
2. Top-level keys contain information (not name of structure)
3. Inner values within array indicate mixed categories

Write less Rust code overall simply by making use of various serde attributes, the question-mark operator (?) and ErrorKind with various impls of From and Into traits.

Presentation

The slide deck is intended to be a stand-alone presentation, so there's something for those who may have missed the original event.

Slides are in Markdown, suitable for use with Remark.js v0.14.0.

The Markdown version of the presentation is presentation.md, and the rendered PDF version is presentation.pdf.