On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton@gmail.com> wrote:
We have great tools for [de]serializing both to binary and to JSON (binary, cereal, json, aeson, etc). But we have rather weak support for [de]serializing to human readable Haskell-ish external formats.
What we have is parsec, attoparsec, trifecta, etc. --- parsers are so trivial to build in Haskell that it's easier to swot up one that does exactly what you need on the fly than it is to build a better Read with enough flexibility to cover a majority of use cases.