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THE fastest alternative JSON parser for Go that does not require schema

10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-03-21 · latest 2026-07-31

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    Show HN: The fastest JSON parser for Go
    story by LeonidBugaev · 2026-07-31 · 1 comment
  2. …a lot for protobuf: https://github.com/richardartoul/molecule jsonparser is great for JSON parsing: https://github.com/buger/jsonparser fastcache is a great “zero gc” cache: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache Etc
    comment by richieartoul · 2022-05-28 · in Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
  3. …2400 OPTIONS 200 real 0m0.466s user 0m0.512s sys 0m0.198s `jj` is a little tool I wrote that uses https://github.com/buger/jsonparser
    comment by justinsaccount · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq
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    Alternative JSON parser for Go (10x times faster standard library)
    story by LeonidBugaev · 2020-12-24 · 0 comments
  5. jq is just slow.. using github.com/buger/jsonparser to slice out some fields from a large json log is about 10x faster than using jq. The most common mistake I see is people composing pipelines and putting jq before grep. Or worse, using…
    comment by justinsaccount · 2020-11-06 · in Fast open-source intrusion detection
  6. …0.01 user 0.01 sys 167f6d638a4ccf9e0be1ff4ed74caa01a461bd9a - json-cut is a crappy tool I wrote that use github.com/buger/jsonparser
    comment by justinsaccount · 2019-10-08 · in Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
  7. The fastest Go JSON parser I know of is https://github.com/buger/jsonparser . I've used that one in production quite successfully. I don't see that in the comparative benchmarks for Gojay.
    comment by nieksand · 2018-05-20 · in Show HN: Gojay – Performant JSON encoder/decoder for Golang
  8. …- sure, it's Go, but that's a bit more than 10 minutes Well, it is Go. This is go json parser: https://github.com/buger/jsonparser/blob/master/parser.go And this is angstrom: https://github.com/inhabitedtype/angstrom/blob/master/exampl...…
    comment by ernst_klim · 2017-12-01 · in Type-safe GraphQL with OCaml
  9. You should check https://github.com/buger/jsonparser and https://github.com/mailru/easyjson as well. They are even more faster.
    comment by LeonidBugaev · 2016-03-30 · in Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go
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    New JSON parser for Go: up to 9x faster than `encoding/json`
    story by LeonidBugaev · 2016-03-21 · 14 comments