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Introducing JSON support in Erlang 27

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Erlang 27 introduces a new built-in module for JSON encoding and decoding. This article provides a brief example of how to use the new :json module. You can easily encode and decode JSON directly in the Erlang shell. The simplified example demonstrates encoding a map to JSON and then decoding it back to a map.

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