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13773 :: json, jsony, jsonx and curly relay - whay?

• domogled (orginal) [2026-03-09T13:37:48+01:00] view original

  In another thread, @planetis-m showed his implementations of curly - relay https://github.com/planetis-m/relay

  and JSON, or the JSON variants JSONX https://github.com/planetis-m/jsonx

  I’m looking at it briefly, but I’m not entirely sure what the benefit is or what the purpose of yet another implementation of these tools might be.

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• planetis (orginal) [2026-03-09T16:52:18+01:00] view original

  No one is required to use my libraries. If you're curious about the motivation and API differences, they’re documented in the READMEs: https://github.com/planetis-m/relay https://github.com/planetis-m/jsonx

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• domogled (orginal) [2026-03-09T23:11:12+01:00] view original

  Thank you, good work. I'm using jsony and curly and considering switching to jsonx and relay. jsonx looks good performance-wise (benchmarks), the library API is nice, I'm now exploring the possibility of swapping it in older code (we use renameHook, parseHook, etc.). We'll start with new code, I'll learn it and see how it goes. Thanks for the good work.

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• planetis (orginal) [2026-03-10T10:37:37+01:00] view original

  I’m glad you’re considering using them. Just a heads-up about relay: you need to copy tests/config.nims into your project and follow what the ci.yml does. On Linux it’s just .passL: -lcurl, but Windows requires some extra handling—you need to build libcurl from vcpkg with HTTP/2 and async DNS support.

  I also recommend using the mimalloc package on Windows, as there are crashes with the default allocator in Nim 2.2.6. I’m not sure whether 2.2.8 fixes those issues.

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