ron

I created a version of [Copenhagen Hnefatafl](https://hnefatafl.org/history.html). It includes an engine, server, client, and AI. It is built in Rust. The server runs over TCP with a custom protocol that uses [RON](https://github.com/ron-rs/ron) for serialization along with plain text. A single line is a message. The client is built with [iced](https://github.com/iced-rs/iced), so it is a desktop and mobile application, not a browser application. The client has many features and is translated into many languages. It also supports hotkeys for everything that iced supports. One feature is to review games. You can play out whatever variations you please and use AI to suggest moves. After completing a game it is saved on the server and to review it you just click "Get Archived Games". You can identify the game by its ID. I am looking for more

I would suggest a mostly declarative format like Rust Object Notation (RON): https://github.com/ron-rs/ron

Or something like RON https://github.com/ron-rs/ron

Looks nice enough. How does it compare with RON? https://github.com/ron-rs/ron More than a syntax, what I look for nowadays in a descriptive language is tooling, including a schema system, IDE plugins and library / build tool integration. Convenience makes it hard to dislodge the incumbents (toml, yaml, json).

It's very much inspired by Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI. At the end of the day we just use the Rust Struct parser! It's very similar to JSON or RON if you're familiar. https://github.com/ron-rs/ron

Whenever this kind of arguments come up, I am sad that RON (https://github.com/ron-rs/ron) is not better known. To me it feels like a cleaner and better JSON. In any case, my little experience with it had made me hate YAML. Generally speaking, I have come to dislike any language with significant whitespace other than Haskell.

None. Serde is strongly, strictly typed: you have to specify what type you want to decode to. It’s nothing like Python’s Pickle protocol. See, for example, https://github.com/ron-rs/ron/blob/484fcab0686dfd18c7e29b6c1..., where it (in a type-inferency way) says “parse as Config”.

I actually really like RON[1] [1] https://github.com/ron-rs/ron