serde-kotlin in Kotlin

This is a Kotlin Multiplatform line-by-line transliteration port of serde-rs/serde.
Original Project: This port is based on serde-rs/serde. All design credit and project intent belong to the upstream authors; this repository is a faithful port to Kotlin Multiplatform with no behavioural changes intended.
Porting status
This is an in-progress port. The goal is feature parity with the upstream Rust crate while providing a native Kotlin Multiplatform API. Every Kotlin file carries a // port-lint: source <path> header naming its upstream Rust counterpart so the AST-distance tool can track provenance.
Upstream README — serde-rs/serde
The text below is reproduced and lightly edited from https://github.com/serde-rs/serde. It is the upstream project's own description and remains under the upstream authors' authorship; links have been rewritten to absolute upstream URLs so they continue to resolve from this repository.
Serde

Serde is a framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically.
You may be looking for:
Serde in action
Click to show Cargo.toml.
Run this code in the playground.
[dependencies]
= { version = , features = [] }
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Getting help
Serde is one of the most widely used Rust libraries so any place that Rustaceans
congregate will be able to help you out. For chat, consider trying the
or channels of the unofficial community
Discord (invite: ), the or
channels of the official Rust Project Discord (invite:
), or the stream in Zulip. For
asynchronous, consider the , the
subreddit which has a pinned weekly easy questions post, or the Rust
. It's acceptable to file a support issue in this
repo but they tend not to get as many eyes as any of the above and may get
closed without a response after some time.
License
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version
2.0 or MIT license at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Serde by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
About this Kotlin port
Installation
dependencies {
implementation("io.github.kotlinmania:serde-kotlin:0.1.2")
}
Building
./gradlew build
./gradlew test
Targets
- macOS arm64
- Linux x64
- Windows mingw-x64
- iOS arm64 / simulator-arm64 (Swift export + XCFramework)
- JS (browser + Node.js)
- Wasm-JS (browser + Node.js)
- Wasm-WASI (Node.js)
- Android (API 24+)
- Android Native arm32 / arm64 / x86 / x64
- JVM
Porting guidelines
See AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for translator discipline, port-lint header convention, and Rust → Kotlin idiom mapping.
License
This Kotlin port is distributed under the same MIT license as the upstream serde-rs/serde. See LICENSE (and any sibling LICENSE-* / NOTICE files mirrored from upstream) for the full text.
Original work copyrighted by the serde authors.
Kotlin port: Copyright (c) 2026 Sydney Renee and The Solace Project.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the serde-rs/serde maintainers and contributors for the original Rust implementation. This port reproduces their work in Kotlin Multiplatform; bug reports about upstream design or behavior should go to the upstream repository.