Re: [review][JSON] Some thoughts on recent reviews

From: Daniela Engert (dani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-09-24 11:38:34

Am 24.09.2020 um 13:02 schrieb Jeff Garland via Boost:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:22 AM Hans Dembinski via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> cereal has a JSON archive. cereal also has 2.5k stars on Github, so
>> it is
>> dramatically popular.
>>
> I believe you're correct -- we moved to cereal for json serialization
> because it wasn't in Boost. In our case it gets extensive use to marshall
> objects in and out of Mongo databases, web service/socket requests, config
> files.

Wie switched almost completely from Boost.Serialization over to cereal,
for similar reasons. Pre-C++11 libs get phased out from projects in
active maintenance (wherever possible) and are discouraged for new
projects where C++17 is the targeted standard.

Ciao
  Dani

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