Surviving maintaining a popular GitHub spare-time project - Video

In this talk, I will look back to 8 years of development and maintenance of “JSON for Modern C++”, an MIT-licensed library to support JSON in C++. It started as a small side project and is now used by Apple, Microsoft, Google, Volkswagen, and Daimler and received ~25k stars on GitHub. I will discuss the challenges and problems along the way, the lessons learned, and look into the future of the project.

The talk will
- give a brief overview of the library, assuming C++ and JSON are known
- look back how it started in 2013 and how the project evolved to 10k clones per day
- report of the problems and the lessons learned during development and maintenance and the challenges of having this as a side project
- sketch the criteria that lead to the success of the library
- give a glimpse to the future of JSON for Modern C++

Besides an insight into the project and its processes, the audience will get an overview of the tools used to deliver well-tested C++ software in their spare time.

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