Rust Serde's 8-Year-Old Issue Gets a Fix: mitsuhiko Publishes 'slop' Branch

mitsuhiko · x · 2026-08-03

Prominent Rust developer mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) has published a 'slop' branch to address a nearly eight-year-old issue (#1183) in the serde library. The issue involves internal buffering disrupting format-specific deserialization features, such as non-string keys failing in flatten and internally tagged enums.

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