{"encoding":"json"} (Go Time #141)

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is used all over the web as a text-based way of transmitting data. In this episode, we explore Go’s encoding/json package, and others with Daniel Marti.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Building a high performance JSON parser - paper by Dave Cheney about writing a JSON parser.
• encoding/json - json package in the standard library

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!