GSON is much more than a JSON parser. Guava has no real equivalent in breadth or depth on iOS. Most of the rest of these are far more mature and battle tested t

GSON is much more than a JSON parser. Guava has no real equivalent in breadth or depth on iOS. Most of the rest of these are far more mature and battle tested than the comparable Obj-C efforts. Obj-C has been a mostly irrelevant sideshow in the programming world before 3-4 years ago and it shows in the ecosystem. I've been doing nothing but iOS for over a year now so I'm quite aware of what's out there. And, more importantly, these use the same resource allocation strategies, naming conventions, documentation tools etc as your own code, unlike C/C++ library foo.