Comment by rictic

Is true. I wrote a ton of tests, testing just about everything I can think of, including using a reverse parser I wrote to exhaustively generate the simplest 65k json values, ensuring that it succeeds with the same values and fails on the same cases as JSON.parse.

Then added benchmarks and started doing optimization, getting it ~10x faster than my initial naive implementation. Then I threw agents at it, and between Claude, Gemini, and Codex we were able to make it an additional 2x faster.