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Life & fun · May 1, 2023

Sonnet – The fastest JSON parser I can think of in Go

- What's different? It's fast. On my machine, the stream decoder is faster than bytedance/sonic which claim to be the fastest even though mine is written in pure Go and Sonic is written in Go + C + Assembly. It also is a drop-in replacement of the standard library. - Why is it fast? technologies used are in my articles (available in English and Japanese) EN: https://sugawarayuuta.medium.com/still-i-wanted-to-build-the... JA: https://zenn.dev/sugawarayuuta/articles/2a5a3cb3f9a504

Sonnet – The fastest JSON parser I can think of in Go launched on May 1, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,883 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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