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If your language doesn't come with JSON in the stdlib, you're really on the cutting edge. Or using a language meant for embedding :)

Doesn't Java lack a JSON parser in the standard library?

The standard Java library includes a JavaScript interpreter, so there has to be a parser for object literals in there somewhere.

Object literals aren't JSON, though.

JS has stringify and parse, so there ought to be a JSON parser somewhere.

One thing that the article mentions is that there are in fact strings that are valid JSON but not valid JS object literals.

A modern JS implementation should also have a JSON parser

As of Java 8, the Nashorn JavaScript engine is included by default, and it does support JSON parsing.

> you're really on the cutting edge.

Or the other way around. Think about something like MUMPS.

No, no thank you. Did it for a year. Pretty sure I don't even want to think about doing it again.