[nicoburns]

Rust is absolutely wonderful for tasks like this. They don't hit any of the cases where Rust's ownership can make things tricky. And the serde library makes deserializing JSON a piece of cake.

You end up with code which looks pretty similar to the equivalent JavaScript or Python code, but performs much faster (10x, 100x or even 1000x faster).

[nicoburns]

There's also pikkr (https://github.com/pikkr/pikkr) if you need really really fast JSON parsing.