Collaborate with ciborium

[npmccallum]

https://github.com/enarx/ciborium/

Can we collaborate rather than building multiple CBOR stacks?

[quininer]

Of course, how do you hope to collaborate?

[npmccallum]

No idea. But I'd rather have one really good CBOR stack than multiple incomplete ones.

Was there some defect or design considerations in ciborium that lead to an alternate implementation?

[quininer]

There are two missing things in ciborium that prompted me to develop this crate

1. ciborium has not exposed the Serializer api for a long time
2. ciborium does not support zero-copy decode.

[npmccallum]

There are two missing things in ciborium that prompted me to develop this crate

1. ciborium has not exposed the Serializer api for a long time

https://github.com/enarx/ciborium/issues/18

We have expressly supported exposing these. But nobody has stepped up to finish it. Would you like to?

2. ciborium does not support zero-copy decode.

We'd love to have this feature. Although one should note that not all CBOR wire values can be zero-copy decoded.

Would you be willing to contribute these features to ciborium?

[quininer]

I'm not sure how easy this is. when I tried to make ciborium support zero copy decode, I realized that it needed to be changed quite a bit. considering communication costs, I choose to implement my own library.

[npmccallum]

@quininer If this is the biggest blocker, I'm happy to help you implement it.