2023/05/09

About the precedent for deriving serde from serialize/deserialize:

A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or data stream, and hence is a type of codec. Endec is a portmanteau of encoder/decoder. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec