I have different experience. I did some toy project in C# and haven't found handling JSON any painful. Maybe I just haven't hit the bad cases, though. I don't

I have different experience. I did some toy project in C# and haven't found handling JSON any painful. Maybe I just haven't hit the bad cases, though. I don't exactly remember what I've used and what I wrote, but I think I had just installed some library (IIRC it was Json.NET), put some annotations on classes, and got my serialization. For deserialization I didn't wanted to write throwaway classes so I just made a JSONPath query and iterated over the result objects, looking at necessary properties. Nothing particularly different from how things are in, say, Python, except maybe for some extra type checking.