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jansson

brew install jansson v2.15.0 MIT

C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON data.

Why you might care

Jansson is a lightweight, dependency-free C library commonly used in C/C++ projects that need JSON support without pulling in heavy frameworks. It's often a build dependency for CLI tools and daemons written in C, offering a simple API and both streaming and tree-based parsing modes.

Categories

library json-tool

Alternatives

jq yajl cJSON RapidJSON
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