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		ranger_danger 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 l... What is your definition of non-ancient? There are still embedded systems being produced today that don't have 32-bit integers.

account42 7 months ago [–]

And those will need careful review of any code you want to run on them because no one cares about your weird architecture nor should they have to.

ranger_danger 7 months ago | [–]

I wouldn't call 8 or 16-bit microcontrollers (with no concept of a 32-bit int) that are in billions of devices "weird". But ok.

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