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+Experimental Rust Serialization Library.
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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/erickt/rust-serde.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/erickt/rust-serde)
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 This is an experiment to modernize rust's `libserialize` library. It is
 designed to implement https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/22.