Niels Lohmann
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* Clean up README, contribution guide, and repository metadata - REUSE.toml: fix the Hedley path and SPDX id (CC0-1.0), mark the docset icons as the public-domain JSON logo - CITATION.cff: v3.12.0 was released on 2025-04-11 - FILES.md: list all workflows, describe the Meson option defaults - README: ctest -LE, table of contents, typos, stale Android/MinGW advice, moved links, merge duplicate Thanks entries, list the analysis tools used in CI - CONTRIBUTING: iterative parser, json_literals.hpp is generated, links - .gitignore: backups and release outputs; .gitattributes: mark generated files - labeler: label other build systems and .github documentation - MODULE.bazel: add the module version Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Clean up CI, CMake, Makefile, and Bazel files - CMakeLists.txt: avoid VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL, which CMake < 3.7 lacks - ci.cmake: test JSON_DisableTupleReferenceConversion in ci_cmake_flags, remove unused variables and unreachable per-compiler targets, look up Clang tools consistently, forward CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS to ci_module_cpp20, format json_literals.hpp and remove backups in ci_test_amalgamation - BUILD.bazel: add json_literals.hpp to the single-header target - workflows: format json_literals.hpp before copying it, drop the obsolete natvis --version plumbing, name natvis and macro_builder in failure messages, drop the duplicate amalgamation job, install Valgrind only where needed, republish docs on version bumps, fix stale names - Makefile: complete .PHONY and help, check-amalgamation always restores the checked-in files, natvis uses its own venv, macro_builder_check installs astyle, clean removes the fuzzer binaries - remove tools/amalgamate/config_json_view.json (json_view.hpp is not on develop yet) Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Fix inaccuracies in the documentation - version history: json_base_class_t (3.11.3), JSON_HAS_CPP_11 (3.10.0), JSON_HAS_RANGES exclusions, define-type macros, ABI tags - releases: 3.12.0 raised the minimum CMake version - from_*: the (ptr, len) overloads are deleted, not removed, in 4.0.0 - contains/count/find: document the deleted integral overloads - add JSON_HAS_RANGE_VIEW_CONVERSION and list the JSON_HAS_* macros in the macro overview - mention BON8 and error_handler where binary formats are listed - broken links, outdated URLs, warning count, Hunter v0.26.12 - copy_markdown_source hook: expand snippets in the Markdown copies Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Pass /EHsc to the Windows C++20 module build ci_module_cpp20 now forwards CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS to the module build. The Windows workflow sets CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, which replaces CMake's MSVC defaults including /EHsc, so <chrono> failed with C4530 under /WX. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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# Design goals
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There are myriads of [JSON](https://json.org) libraries out there, and each may even have its reason to exist. Our class had these design goals:
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- **Intuitive syntax**. In languages such as Python, JSON feels like a first-class data type. We used all the operator magic of modern C++ to achieve the same feeling in your code.
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- **Trivial integration**. Our whole code consists of a single header file [`json.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp). That's it. No library, no subproject, no dependencies, no complex build system. The class is written in vanilla C++11. All in all, everything should require no adjustment of your compiler flags or project settings.
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- **Serious testing**. Our class is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](https://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289).
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Other aspects were not so important to us:
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- **Memory efficiency**. Each JSON object has an overhead of one pointer (the maximal size of a union) and one enumeration element (1 byte). The default generalization uses the following C++ data types: `std::string` for strings, `int64_t`, `uint64_t` or `double` for numbers, `std::map` for objects, `std::vector` for arrays, and `bool` for Booleans. However, you can template the generalized class `basic_json` to your needs.
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- **Speed**. There are certainly [faster JSON libraries](https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark#parsing-time) out there. However, if your goal is to speed up your development by adding JSON support with a single header, then this library is the way to go. If you know how to use a `std::vector` or `std::map`, you are already set.
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See the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#please-dont) for more information.
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