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Take a look at JSON for Modern C++: https://github.com/nlohmann/json

Perhaps this example (benchmark, actually) is close enough: https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/master/benchmarks/benc...

Note that the above also performs mini-benchmark with multiple iterations, dumping parsed data to another file, and finishes with a clean-up of the aforementioned dump target file.

The core (read, parse, write) can be simplified to:

  std::ifstream input_file("data.json");
  nlohmann::json data;
  data << input_file;
  std::cout << data;

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No no no, this won't compile. Write the complete code, with all the includes, main function, etc. And write it correctly, iterating over the data, accessing the object fields.

All right, then: This one is complete (compiles, runs, iterates through the data, accessing only fields "x" and "y"):

  #include <fstream>
  #include <json.hpp>
  
  int main()
  {
  	std::ifstream input_file("data.json");
  	nlohmann::json data;
  	data << input_file;
  	for (auto obj : data)
  		std::cout << obj["x"] << ',' << obj["y"] << '\n';
  }

There is _absolutley_ no value for a language to provide handy built-in functions that are trivially made available by a library.

If we were talking about language constructs/semantics or flow-control abilities, I'd have a very different opinion - but not having a json decoder builtin, is no reason to use or not use a language.

Don't dodge the question. Use any available library you want, just type the code that will compile.