There definitely is a lack of good JSON parsers for C. We wrote our own in QEMU. The relevant code is: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-lexer.c;

There definitely is a lack of good JSON parsers for C. We wrote our own in QEMU. The relevant code is: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-lexer.c;h=3cd3285825d1f8433da982eba6059169bd6776c3;hb=HEAD http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-lexer.c;h=3cd3... http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-parser.c;h=849e2156da4e7a3fad8f890370236cb6da9be716;hb=HEAD http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-parser.c;h=849... Among other things, this supports streaming, is fairly fast, and has gotten a fair bit of scrutiny against malicious input. The lexer is a hand written state machine which seems like something you should never do but turned out to be pretty reasonable.