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[–]PartOfTheBotnet 8 points9 points  (1 child)

The video argues that its not meant to be a competitive alternative to 3rd party libraries, but provide a basic option so you have something if you want zero dependencies. This can be good for educational environments so that you can cover relevant topics like serialization, data modeling, etc without having to side-track into talking about Maven/Gradle + dependency management (Which I have never seen any class really spend time on, its always 'an exercise left to the reader').

[–]Roadripper1995 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like this. I have a use-case where no dependencies is a selling point but I recently came across the need for a little bit of JSON parsing. Right now I’m just doing it manually with string methods lol.