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

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Pranam Lashkari via Boost Sent: 14 September 2020 08:30 To: boost Cc: Pranam Lashkari Subject: [boost] [review][JSON] Review of JSON starts today: Sept 14 - Sept 23

Boost formal review of Vinnie Falco and Krystian Stasiowski's library JSON starts today and will run for 10 days ending on 23 Sept 2020. Both of these authors have already developed a couple of libraries which are accepted in Boost(boost beast and Static String)

This library focuses on a common and popular use-case for JSON. It provides a container to hold parsed and serialised JSON types. It provides more flexibility and better benchmark performance than its competitors.

JSON highlights the following features in the documentation:

- Fast compilation - Require only C++11 - Fast streaming parser and serializer - Easy and safe API with allocator support - Constant-time key lookup for objects - Options to allow non-standard JSON - Compile without Boost, define BOOST_JSON_STANDALONE - Optional header-only, without linking to a library

What I knew about JSON could have be written on a postage stamp, but I have at least read the documentation. It is an example of how it should be done. It has good examples and good reference info. I could quickly see how to use it, but didn't have a need, and didn't feel it useful as others already have, and there are benchmarks too. On that basis alone, my view is ACCEPT, FWIW.

(a point I would like to add in highlight: it has cool Jason logo 😝)

(😝 indeed - My only recommendation is to replace this with a Boost logo ASAP ! No - more than that - I make it a condition for acceptance.) Paul PS That there are other libraries doing similar (but fairly different) things is no reason to reject this library.