The project's name is very generic, which makes it hard to search for in, for example, internet search engines or the package repositories of various operating systems. My first impulse upon finding this library was to see if it was already present in my distribution's package repository, but how should I even go about that? Searching for just "json" is not going to be helpful. (Turns out googling for "nlohmann json" works better, but still...)
The name is also bound to lead to some confusion, as it is already the name for the format/meta-format itself.
This also makes it awkward to specify a dependency on this library in a way that will likely work across distributions.
The full name of the project, "JSON for Modern C++", on the other hand, is too unwieldy, consists of several words and does not actually seem to be used much.
The project's name is very generic, which makes it hard to search for in, for example, internet search engines or the package repositories of various operating systems. My first impulse upon finding this library was to see if it was already present in my distribution's package repository, but how should I even go about that? Searching for just "json" is not going to be helpful. (Turns out googling for "nlohmann json" works better, but still...)
The name is also bound to lead to some confusion, as it is already the name for the format/meta-format itself.
This also makes it awkward to specify a dependency on this library in a way that will likely work across distributions.
The full name of the project, "JSON for Modern C++", on the other hand, is too unwieldy, consists of several words and does not actually seem to be used much.