[fluffything]

> Surprising reasons?!

It is possible to write a blazing fast JSON serializer/deserializer on pretty much every programming language, and most languages have many of them.

Swift does not, and it does not seem that it will have one in the near future. This is quite disappointing, taking into account that Swift is one of the 3 major-platform native languages (C# windows, swift macos, C on Linux).

So yeah, it is quite surprising that the major platform language in one of the main platforms in use has extremely poor JSON support. Even more surprising is that there is no path forward to fix that.

There are many pros/cons of using json, but this was a "non issue" (if it isn't fast enough, we can make it fast - turns out we cannot because the platform is controlled by Apple and they don't want to).