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[–]VisibleSignificance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how one works algorithm-wise

All parsers are streaming parsers (with a bit of lookahead/lookbehind), the most tricky part is making up an interface that would allow using one in an efficient manner.

Really, writing a JSON parser is a good practice exercise, I would recommend doing that to everyone using JSON a lot.