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 ## Similar projects
 
-- <https://github.com/alexmaco/json_stream>\
+- <https://github.com/alexmaco/json_stream>
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-- <https://github.com/sarum90/qjsonrs>\
+- <https://github.com/sarum90/qjsonrs>
   > JSON Tokenizer written in Rust
-- <https://github.com/jeremiah-shaulov/nop-json>\
+- <https://github.com/jeremiah-shaulov/nop-json>
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-- <https://github.com/isagalaev/ijson-rust>\
+- <https://github.com/isagalaev/ijson-rust>
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 - <https://github.com/byron/json-tools>