I would say this is my first serious systems-related project, as I’ve worked professionally as a frontend developer, funnily saying. It was a personal challenge that took me a year and a half, which could have taken twice the time if I hadn’t choose Zig, so I want to thank Andrew and the core team for this language, as it is a very educative tool.
The zimdjson library is a port of simdjson, a high-performance JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions, with additional features that I consider a must-have.
- Streaming support which can handle arbitrarily large documents with O(1) of memory usage.
- An ergonomic, Serde-like deserialization interface thanks to Zig’s compile-time reflection.
- More efficient memory usage.
I won’t keep copy-pasting, so here it is the repository with examples, benchmarks and documentation.
There is always room for improvement, so any feedback is welcome!
