I still love Objective-C and you can pry it from my cold dead hands - tho I basically just call in to it from Rust these days for convenience reasons (cargo).

That aside, I was glancing through the source code for the engine and noticed this:

https://codeberg.org/brentsimmons/SalmonBay/src/branch/main/...

I wonder why they opted to do this instead of NSJSONSerialization - maybe I'm just misunderstanding the use for the class tho.