json11 vs JsonCpp

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json11		JsonCpp
	Project
-	Mentions	6
2,091	Stars	7,858
-	Growth	1.6%
0.6	Activity	1.9
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C++	Language	C++
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

JsonCpp

Posts with mentions or reviews of JsonCpp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-16.

Tools for rolling your own engine
9 projects | /r/gamedev | 16 May 2022

json cpp for json
jsoncpp-1.9.5 -> libjsoncpp.so.25 Huh?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 19 Apr 2022

And that lists https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp as upstream, and I think the package's version number matches theirs.
JsonCpp – A C++ library for interacting with JSON
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2022
adding library to cmake (for pytorch)
3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 2 Aug 2021

include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( JsonCpp GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git
What JSON library do you suggest?
15 projects | /r/cpp | 31 Jul 2021

I like https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp
C++ JSON library that is fast to compile?
2 projects | /r/cpp | 16 Jun 2021

Or use a lib that you link to. I like jsoncpp. It's not tHe FaStEsT lib, but the api is clear and easy to use, and the integration has never been an issue either.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing json11 and JsonCpp you can also consider the following projects:

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

json - JSON for Modern C++

PicoJSON - a header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++

Boost.PropertyTree - Boost.org property_tree module

simdjson - Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks

cJSON - Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C

ujson

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/

ArduinoJson - 📟 JSON library for Arduino and embedded C++. Simple and efficient.

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