Simple, hassle-free, zero-boilerplate serialization in Scala/Java similar to Python's Pickle?

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Is there a simple, hassle-free approach to serialization in Scala/Java that\'s similar to Python\'s pickle? Pickle is a dead-simple solution that\'s reasonably efficient in spa

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Edit 2020-02-19: please note, as mentioned by @federico below, this answer is no longer valid as the repository has been archived by the owner.

Scala now has Scala-pickling which performs as good or better than Kyro depending on scenario - See slides 34-39 in this presentation.