A New Go API for JSON

Re:A New Go API for JSON by CamouflagedKiwi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:48PM (#50369853)

I generally like `encoding/json/v2` and I'm glad they did it.

I wish they'd left `MarshalIndent` in there though. The equivalent code is super complicated and non-obvious, so it's a pain to migrate, and it's a pain when you're banging out some quick code and want to dump some readable JSON. I suppose these days the LLMs can write the complicated version for us, of course.

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Re:A New Go API for JSON by lifeisloving on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:55PM (#50369944)

I love paying 10 cents to some billionaire to serialize some json. Screw using my brain!!! Ill rent me some competency

Not an insult to you, its just how I feel things are going, myself inculded at times.

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Re:A New Go API for JSON by athorax on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:59PM (#50370004)

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but isn't this functionality just moved into jsontext? https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json/jsontext#Value.Indent

  v := jsontext.Value(b)
  v.Indent()
  fmt.Println(string(v))

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Re:A New Go API for JSON by irq-1 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:22PM (#50370964)

    func WithIndent(indent string) Options

https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json/jsontext#WithIndent

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Re:A New Go API for JSON by arccy on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:23PM (#50370310)

    json.Marshal(v, jsontext.WithIndent("  "))

?

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