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Yes, I'm biased. PostgreSQL is my favorite SQL database and the upcoming 9.4 release makes me even more excited. There is already a pure Rust driver for PostgreSQL - the postgres crate which will be the subject of today's article.

Important note: this article is outdated! Go to http://zsiciarz.github.io/24daysofrust/ for a recent version of all of 24 days of Rust articles. The blogpost here is kept as it is for historical reasons.

JSON is a workhorse data format of the modern Web. Originating from the JavaScript world, it gained a lot of traction and at the moment it's usually the first choice of a Web developer for a data interchange format. Not only Web - once JavaScript-only, JSON support is now ubiquitous. A lot of languages ship with JSON parsers in the standard libraries, and when it's not the case, surely someone has already built a third party library. In case of Rust, JSON support comes out of the box in the serialize::json module.