Then don't? In C you would just implement everything yourself, so go do that in Rust if you don't want dependencies. In C I've seen more half-baked json implem

Then don't? In C you would just implement everything yourself, so go do that in Rust if you don't want dependencies. In C I've seen more half-baked json implementations than I can count on my fingers because using dependencies is too cumbersome in that ecosystem and people just write it themselves but most of the time with more bugs.