json3 deprecated

[sidoruk-sv]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/json3

JSON 3 is deprecated and no longer maintained. Please don't use it in new projects, and migrate existing projects to use the native JSON.parse and JSON.stringify instead.

[brycekahle]

I believe its use as a polyfill is still valid for sockjs. We still target some of the browsers that needed the polyfill in the first place.

[DaSchTour]

polyfills generally are not part of a library but are added on demand but the user of a library. This is currently forcing everybody to ship json3 to millions of users that don't need it. I think it will save a lot of carbon dioxide to not ship it to the 99.9% of users that doesn't need it.
Just let the user include https://polyfill.io/v3/ with JSON and only the few users that really need it will have to download JSON polyfill.

[brycekahle]

Removing JSON3 would be a breaking change for some users, which is not something I'm interested in doing at the moment.

[DaSchTour]

That's why there is semver I guess.

[jonkoops]

@brycekahle What is your intention in regards to browser support in the future? Will support for IE below v11 be dropped at some point?