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A specification missing #221

@realcr

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@realcr

Hi TyOverby, thank you for the great work on this crate!
I was wondering if bincode has any written specification. I searched the repository and googled a bit but I couldn't find any written spec.

I wanted to use this crate for serializing/deserializing basic protocol network messages, but then realized that I might have difficulty writing a client in another language (Like javascript or python) to communicate with my rust server. A spec could really help with the task of writing a minimal serializer on the client side.

It is possible that bincode was written with the intent of only being used internally by Rust programs, and in that case my question is probably not relevant. What do you think?

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