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🦉 Modern high-performance serialization utilities for Python (JSON, MessagePack, Pickle)

Is explosion/srsly beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to explosion/srsly to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
488
Forks
42
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
4
Avg merge
12m
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
Python
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Mar 23, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to explosion/srsly

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Move to `orjson`
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    explosion/srsly#109 · 2 reactions ·

  • Add numbin as another serialization library
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    explosion/srsly#88 · 2 comments ·

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