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The article suggests that Gnu Awk might soon improve its understanding of JSON.

Can somebody please shed some light at this? Will gawk get JSON support. Or is is already there and I just need to get a recent version?

GNU awk already does. [0] Sorta. The "non-essential" stuff, like xml, json, redis gets put into gawkextlib. Usually packaged for your platform.

Thanks. I wasn't aware about this library.