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Re:FlexBuffers by excerionsforte on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:43PM (#23589575)
When I had searched HN for this, there was none. Curious, why didn't you market it? Seems production ready or maybe it was planned in the future.

I'm glad to have seen this, which was on https://serde.rs/, which seems to be a recent addition. I was looking for an alternative to messagepack.

Re:FlexBuffers by Aardappel on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:05AM (#23589660)
"market" it? This is an open source project, with zero budget. I'd rather spend my time writing more code than trying to market anything, which seems hard in todays climate :) Good systems will eventually reach people organically, even if it takes longer that way.
Re:FlexBuffers by excerionsforte on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:26AM (#23589751)
Marketing is an umbrella term for spreading awareness. Less people that know about it then the less likely your product gets experimented with and then chosen. I don't think any recent serialization benchmarks include flexbuffers.

There's different ways to make people aware of alternatives. I chose to spread word of this product on HN :)

Re:FlexBuffers by Aardappel on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:28AM (#23590064)
Even that kind of "marketing" takes time :) But thanks for helping out.
Re:FlexBuffers by webmaven on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:17AM (#23589711)
Rather than "market", you could "promote" or "evangelize" instead...