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I have written an app for the menu of my university's canteen. The JSON API that I used returned the meals as fields of a document where the order of the fields was the actual display order. It took me a while to even find an implementation of a JSON parser that keeps the order of the fields.

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I would assume that any decent JSON parser has at least the option to keep the order of the fields. Especially for CLI tools that automatically add fields to a JSON file thats usually edited by a user e.g. package.json, I feel that it's absolutely crucial.

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