Should you use Newtonsoft.Json or System.Text.Json in 2023?

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  1. .NET Runtime

    .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

    System.Text.Json doesn’t: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/1256

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  3. Json.NET

    Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

    This bug and many others related to time: https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/issues/862 And they will never get fixes, because the project is kind of dead. Edit: and actually, the creator claim to have made it like this on purpose, so I don't trust it anymore.

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