D JSON (WAT?!)

[Pavel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 16:09:25 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:04:01 +0000, Pavel wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to all you folks who explained "in" operator for me. My 
>> bad.
>> Let's focus on the real problem, which is JSON wrapper class. 
>> Is it
>> needed? Wouldn't it be better to get AA from parseJSON?
>
> The following are valid JSON:
>
> auto json1 = parseJSON(`1`);
> auto json2 = parseJSON(`"foo"`);
> auto json3 = parseJSON(`[1, 2, 3]`);
>
> None of these fit naturally into an JSONValue[string] return 
> type.

Now we figured it out about JSON, but in that case:
Why not just use std.variant.Variant construct instead of 
JSONValue?