Shoddy is as shoddy does. If your language doesn't provide a convenient way to pass in a coalescing absorber of bytes, that doesn't incur a whole function call

Shoddy is as shoddy does. If your language doesn't provide a convenient way to pass in a coalescing absorber of bytes, that doesn't incur a whole function call (never mind system call) per byte, for the JSONy thing to use, maybe a better language is in order.