A .NET JSON serializer/deserializer with zero dependencies.
There are already many JSON serializers available on the .NET platform. So why ZeroDepJson?
- It's only one .cs file ZeroDepJson.cs so it's super easy to integrate in any .NET project, .NET Framework, .NET core, .NET 5/6/7+, client, server, etc.
- It supports .NET framework 4.0 to .NET 7+ projects.
- Since it's one source file, you can change some parts of the code easily if you want to really customize it.
- As the name implies, it has ZERO dependency on anything except "some .NET with C#" platform.
- It's quite feature-full, more than some JSON parsers available today, it's not "simple" nor "lightweight".
Note for .NET 8 and higher, dependencies on FormatterConverter and support for ISerializable has been removed to comply with .NET 8 warnings https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/syslib-diagnostics/syslib0050.
Just to make it clear, absolute performance is not a goal. Although its performance is, I hope, decent, if you're after the best performing JSON serializer / deserializer ever, then don't use this.