The first major step in phasing out the bloat that is Bootstrap from my website is done. None of the layout depends on any Bootstrap classes and markup. Instead, the layout is built from scratch using the new Flexbox and Grid features.
When I originally set out to write MsgPack.rkt, a Racket implementation of the MessagePack protocol, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around where to begin. I had no experience in writing a serialisation library, and reading the source code of existing implementations only revealed the what, but not the why. This is why I’m starting this short mini-series of blog posts to provide a commentary on my implementation. I hope that it will serve other people who are looking for a starting point to their own implementations.
In this part of the series I want to go into how to pack data to bytes in MessagePack. We will see how to dynamically dispatch on type and how to pack a selection of particular types.
In the previous article we have seen how to pack an object, this time we will see how to unpack it again on the receiving end.