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Json.NET

Json.NET is a JSON framework for .NET. It is used to serialize and deserialize .NET objects. E.g. the interface from Github provides data in JSON format. To use the data from Github you need to deserialize it with a JSON component.    Json.NET is free software licensed under the MIT license The development is mainly in C#. The homepage is www.newtonsoft.com/json The development is done on Github. https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json The component can be installed with NuGet. Github shows 74 contributors and in the commit history you find even 85 different names. But essentially Json.NET is a one-man project. It was founded by James Newton-King from New Zealand in 2006 and he runs the project ever since. For a long time he was the only contributor, but in the last few years a small team has emerged. James still has done 87% of all commits, but a least 2-3 developers adding stuff each month. The blue bars in the chart below are the commits from...