Why isn't Nothing Serializable by default? did the serialization team miss a use case for it? or whe...

# serialization

[andylamax]

Why isn't Nothing Serializable by default? did the serialization team miss a use case for it? or where there ambiguations that led to it being stalled??

[Vampire]

You cannot even get an instance of Nothing, can you?

[andylamax]

Yes, you ca't get an instance of Nothing. But this code has to be serializable

@Serializable
sealed class Optional<out T> {
  object None: Optional<Nothing>()
  data class Some<out T>(val value: T) : Optional<T>()
}

[ephemient]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/932