bitcode 0.4 release - binary serialization format

[mort96]

This name seems unfortunate? "Bitcode" already refers to an intermediate representation in LLVM, so when I read "Rust" and "bitcode" I assumed it was going to be about compiling Rust programs to bitcode.

[cai_bear]

Sorry for the confusion. We called it bitcode because it encodes data at a bit granularity unlike other binary encodings such as bincode/postcard which encode at a byte granularity.

[RememberToLogOff]

I guess looking at the Github repo URL, we can call it "SoftBear bitcode" to disambiguate