I've worked with jsmn, and it was really a pleasure. I loved that you had one big memory allocation up front (which could even be on the stack) and then no more

I've worked with jsmn, and it was really a pleasure. I loved that you had one big memory allocation up front (which could even be on the stack) and then no more. In my case I was filling in a data structure where I was comfortable capping the length of all list-like elements, so I also had just one big allocation for that. Using it reminded me a lot of my days writing XML SAX parsers. I understand why some people don't like that pattern, but if you've ever written a Finite State Machine it will feel very familiar. Personally I like how the event-based model lets me break things up into little chunks.