dtolnay/serde-yaml

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

Adoption not part of the score

1020 stars · 215 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

serde_yaml is a Rust library that implements the Serde serialization framework for the YAML data format, enabling strongly typed conversion between Rust structs/enums and YAML documents. The project is explicitly no longer maintained, and its final release (0.9.34) is marked as deprecated on crates.io.

Use cases

• parse yaml files in rust
• serialize rust structs to yaml
• deserialize yaml config into typed rust structs
• serde yaml data format support
• convert rust objects to yaml string and back
• strongly typed yaml library for rust

When to choose

• You are maintaining an existing Rust project that already depends on serde_yaml 0.9 and just need it to keep building.
• You want a mature, well-tested serde-based YAML (de)serialization implementation and are comfortable pinning a frozen 0.9 version.

When to avoid

• You are starting a new Rust project - the crate is unmaintained and its crates.io release is explicitly marked deprecated, so a maintained fork or alternative is a better choice.
• You need ongoing bug fixes, security patches, or support for newer Rust compiler versions and YAML edge cases.
• You need non-serde YAML tooling such as manipulation of arbitrary untyped YAML documents.

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

serialization yaml parser developer-tools files parsers rust serde deserialization config-files deprecated unmaintained

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