$ luarocks install rxi-json    - Implemented in pure Lua: works with 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and JIT
    - Fast: generally outperforms other pure Lua JSON implementations (benchmark scripts)
    - Tiny: around 280sloc, 9kb
    - Proper error messages, eg: expected '}' or ',' at line 203 col 30
      See github readme for more information: https://github.com/rxi/json.lua/blob/master/README.md
   
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lua >= 5.1 < 5.5