[Pompidou]

Fun, I struggled with json parsing for a long time, and have done it for the first time with freepascal. Maybe this can help you : https://medium.com/@marcusfernstrm/freepascal-and-json-337c0... ?

[ctoth]

That is way easier than the stuff I was reading before which said I needed some sort of 3rd party paid component for it, nice.

[loa_in_]

Third party paid component for parsing strings into basic data types and making http requests? That doesn't sound right even for late 20th century

[bruce511]

I love comments like this because it shows me how diverse this field is, and how different everyone's experience and expectations are.

As a counterpoint to your comment, I make a living writing high-quality libraries. Everything I make is "in the box", but its not hard to improve on that.

My most popular tools are around string functions, json and xml readers/writers and network functionality.

So, on one hand I'm selling ice-cream in Alaska, on the other hand, it's good ice-cream.

It's a small market, a pimple on a niche, but its big enough to keep me going and that's big enough for me.