Re: [boost] [review][JSON] Review of JSON starts today: Sept 14 - Sept 23

On 15.09.20 16:44, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:14 AM Rainer Deyke via Boost wrote:

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I can see the attraction of Boost.JSON's superior performance, and the attraction of incremental parsing and serialization, but for my usage none of this matters. CBOR support, on the other hand does matter.

We are researching the topic. If you would like to weigh in, the issue can be tracked here: https://github.com/CPPAlliance/json/issues/342

One thing I will note, however. A Google search for "CBOR" produces 390,000 results while a Google search for JSON produces 188,000,000 results. Now there is surely some margin of error in these numbers but I have to wonder how widespread is the use of CBOR.

That's a valid point, but I would counter that most applications that handle large amounts of JSON would benefit from using CBOR, and it's often lack of library support that's holding them back. -- Rainer Deyke (rainerd@eldwood.com)