From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T07:54:09+09:00
Subject: Re: What libraries to be unbundled?

On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:39 PM, David Flanagan wrote:

> 2&3) JSON parsers and generators don't need to be malleable or to  
> evolve. JSON is a very tightly specified data format and is  
> unlikely to change.  The parser and generator don't need to be  
> flexible; they just need to be correct!  (And I have no idea  
> whether the current implementations are any good or not.)

I'm a little fuzzy on why it's written in C for similar reasons.   
I've made multiple JSON parsers and it's very doable in Ruby.

James Edward Gray II