Glaze 7.2: The Fastest C++ Serializer You're Not Using (And Why You Should Be Careful)

A new serialization library shows up on r/cpp every few months promising zero-boilerplate, blazing speed, and universal format support. Most of them die quietly after the first real project tries to use them.Glaze 7.2 is different — the performance claims are real, but the marketing is ahead of the code. I spent a day building a test harness, running benchmarks, and verifying every feature claim from theReddit announcement. Here's what actually works, what doesn't, and whether you should drop nlohmann for it. Full Article:https://hftuniversity.com/post/glaze-72-the-fastest-c-serializer