Addressing Flaws in Ruby's JSON Gem API
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Summary
The article discusses the issues with the JSON gem API in Ruby, highlighting its problematic and sometimes dangerous APIs. The author, who is the new maintainer of the gem, emphasizes that their motivation for taking on the role was not performance optimization but addressing these API flaws. The piece also touches on the challenges of deprecations and breaking changes in software development.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe actual reason is that the gem has many APIs that I think aren’t very good, and some that are outright dangerous.
As a gem user, it’s easy to be annoyed at deprecations and breaking changes.
But while it occasionally happens to run into mostly cosmetic deprecations that aren’t really worth the churn they cause.
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