This is a discussion intended to lead to a formal proposal. This was written with input from @mvdan, @johanbrandhorst, @rogpeppe, @chrishines, @rsc. Background The widely-used "encoding/json" package is over a decade old and has served the Go community well. Over time, we have learned much about what works well and what does not. Its ability to marshal from and unmarshal into native Go types, the
