[bscphil]

The fact that a JSON parser is the sort of ecological niche where you naturally get a single best library which does basically what everyone wants it to do with minimal dependencies is exactly the argument for putting it in the stdlib, though.

[throwup238]

That would require moving the entirety of serde and its traits (or equivalent) into the standard library. Considering how long it takes to stabilize basic things in the stdlib, I think that’s a terrible idea.

IMO Rust has the best tradeoff between stdlib and ecosystem libraries I’ve ever seen in a (compiled) language, and that includes serde/serde_json.