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Re:Show HN: Gojay – Performant JSON encoder/decoder for Golang by tptacek on Sunday May 20, 2018 @06:58PM (#17115191)
That's fine, but this library isn't a drop-in replacement for encoding/json; to be that, it has to work for people who expect tagged structs to round-trip through it, which won't happen with this library.
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Re:Show HN: Gojay – Performant JSON encoder/decoder for Golang by laumars on Monday May 21, 2018 @01:34AM (#17116352)
That's fine but I never stated "drop in for all use cases". A point I made very clear in my second post. But for some use cases it can be. As I had explained already.

The rest should be abundantly clear which use case would apply to anyone who's spent more than five minutes in Go (or any programming language that supports reflection) and had read the first like of the packages readme (ie that it doesn't use reflection).

It's definitely worth remembering that one doesn't have to use structs and tags to write nor read JSON in Go before people start bitching about boiler plate code and lack of macros.

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