# Welcome to aeson

aeson is a fast Haskell library for working with JSON data.

# Important note for users of GHCi and Template Haskell

This package depends on the [blaze-textual
package](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-textual) , and is
unfortunately subject to crashes if you use GHCi or Template Haskell
in your work.

For complete details, including a workaround, see the writeup in [the
blaze-textual
README](https://github.com/mailrank/blaze-textual#readme).

# Join in!

We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements,
and other improvements.

Please report bugs via the
[github issue tracker](http://github.com/mailrank/aeson/issues).

Master [git repository](http://github.com/mailrank/aeson):

* `git clone git://github.com/mailrank/aeson.git`

There's also a [Mercurial mirror](http://bitbucket.org/bos/aeson):

* `hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/aeson`

(You can create and contribute changes using either git or Mercurial.)

Authors
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This library is written and maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan,
<bos@mailrank.com>.