[SaxonRobber]

I think it does, I should not require an external dependency for JSON. Having standard JSON support is far far more useful than another micro optimizations.

[jcelerier]

fifteen years ago that would have been XML and twenty-five years ago SGML and in ten years it'll be TOML or protobuf or something so...

[SaxonRobber]

Eventual deprecation is not a valid justification for making current technology less useful.

Now I would buy your argument if C++ were as conservative as C, but it clearly isn’t. It keeps trying to push itself as a modern general purpose language, while ignoring what it actually takes to be useful as one.