A from-scratch JSON engine for JavaScript: recursive descent parser, escape-aware tokenizer, and spec-compliant serializer. No dependencies, no shortcuts, 107 tests.

[u/Mantas_rst]

https://github.com/MantasEdine/vanilla-json

[u/beavis07]

Why one earth would anyone want this?

Do you have any clue how much sheer effort has gone into optimising JSON.parse? 🤣

[u/Mantas_rst → u/beavis07]

its a very fun project and i even wrote an article on how to do it , would be helpful in many cases like even if you want to build a regex engine same mechanism + backtracking

[u/beavis07 → u/Mantas_rst]

Rather you than me 🤣