JavaScript Object Notation (referred to as JSON) is a common text based format for writing objects, for example [1, 2, 3] or {"a": 1, "b": 10}.

AHK object syntax is very close to JSON syntax, however, JSON requires field names (like "a" in the previous example) to be in quotes, and allows new lines to be started nearly anywhere.

The traditional operations for JSON are "load"/"parse" and "dump", where loading translates JSON text into an object, and dump translates an object into JSON text.

* JSON.ahk by cocobelgica, the de-facto JSON library for AHK. Can be a bottleneck in high-performance situations.

* cJson by geek, a newer JSON library with most of the parsing/dumping logic written in C to provide higher speeds.