Code submissions have continually suffered from formatting
inconsistencies that constantly have to be addressed. Using
clang-format simplifies this by making code formatting more consistent,
and allows automation of the code formatting so that maintainers can
focus more on the code itself instead of code formatting.
The serializer code is meant to be used as a means of reading/writing
data from any arbitrary type of input/output.
The array output serializer makes it so we can stream data to a dynamic
array on the fly.
