> The problem with adding new APIs with different names to the JSON
> module is that it breaks symmetry with other wire protocols. The
> quartet of module level load, loads, dump and dumps functions has
> become a de facto standard API for wire protocols.

Breaking symmetry is terribly less silly than having a second module
doing almost the same thing, though.

> The advantage of a separate "jsonb" module is that it becomes easy to
> say "json is the text transform that dumps and loads from a Unicode
> string, jsonb is the wire protocol that dumps and loads a UTF encoded
> byte sequence".

This is a terribly lousy design.