"rust""systems-programming""performance"
6 min readRust Serde: JSON Serialization So Fast Your PHP Will File a Complaint 🦀📦
Coming from 7 years of Laravel APIs, I assumed JSON serialization was a solved, boring problem. Then I found Serde — Rust's serialization framework that validates your JSON structure at compile time, runs at zero runtime overhead, and makes json_encode() look like a horse and buggy.
Mar 21, 2026