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by justinw2 3251 days ago
It seems like there's no solutions for generic JSON encoding for OCaml/BuckleScript/Reason either though.

I've worked on various ways to do JSON encoding in Purescript through datatype generics, but the recent RowToList machinery lets us use record types directly. I have a post and some links collected if anyone is interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/purescript/comments/6mss5o/new_in_p...

http://qiita.com/kimagure/items/d8a0681ae05b605c5abe
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shakna 3251 days ago
Yojson [0] provides a generic way to read JSON in OCaml. Mostly by pre-defining a type that contains any valid json value.

[0] https://github.com/mjambon/yojson

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justinw2 3251 days ago
Right, there are some various approaches but I've had a few OCaml users tell me there were some reasons why they weren't/couldn't be used on the front end, sadly. Would really like to see some demos otherwise though
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3pt14159 3251 days ago
The only JSON encoder / decoder / manipulator that I've seen that is typed and reasonably flexible is Nim's, but even there it's still 5 times more complicated than say Ruby.
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