Jansson VS YAJL

Compare Jansson vs YAJL and see what are their differences.

Jansson

C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data (by akheron)

YAJL

A fast streaming JSON parsing library in C. (by lloyd)
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Jansson YAJL
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2,976 2,134
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6.2 0.0
8 days ago 20 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later ISC License
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Jansson

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jansson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.

YAJL

Posts with mentions or reviews of YAJL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-06.
  • How to install i3-gaps on slackware 15.0.
    1 project | /r/slackware | 3 Mar 2022
    'git clone https://github.com/lloyd/yajl.git'
  • HN “Why Not Simply”
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2021
    why not simpler HN search

    text-only, no Javascript required, no SNI, unnecessary HTTP headers, DNS, etc.

    json_reformat is from https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/

    example usage: 1.sh|json_reformat|sed 's/ *//;s/\\n/ /g'|less

        stunnel -fd 0 <
  • Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2021
    Interesting. I can still see these "deleted" tweets when I retrieve them from the command line. I do not like using Twitter's GUI, especially the way it uses Javascript, so I wrote a quick shell script to retrieve tweets without using a graphical web browser.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734

    To read the JSON, I have playing around with json_reformat from https://github.com/lloyd/yajl

      1.sh > 1.json

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Jansson and YAJL you can also consider the following projects:

json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/

cJSON - Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C

RapidJSON - A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API

ujson

libjson - a JSON parser and printer library in C. easy to integrate with any model.

json - JSON for Modern C++

JsonCpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.

JSMN - Jsmn is a world fastest JSON parser/tokenizer. This is the official repo replacing the old one at Bitbucket