Project Summary
An implementation of the JSON specification according to RFC 4627 for Ruby. Includes a (very fast) native implementation, written in C, and a pure Ruby implementation. Also includes a GTK+ GUI tool for editing JSON.
This library is part of Ruby 1.9's standard library.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 7 days ago
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