Is cpp a good language for reading and writing large quantities of JSON files as quickly as possible?

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  • simdjson

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

  • For read speed there is a simdjson https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson I've not used this but the speed looks impressive.

  • RapidJSON

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

  • have a look at rapidjson for a a nice simple json framework https://rapidjson.org/ I use it and it's quite fast and as good as anything I used in python.

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