playframework/Play20 — comment on commit 3d6d9a83b4b69f24bb6b5e02fdb63b0288add211
File: framework/src/play/src/main/scala/play/api/libs/json/Json.scala line 10
By julienrf:

The real problem is that a third party API we are using needs a `Map[String, Any]` (which IMHO sucks).

But anyway, to write `as[Map[String, Any]]` we need to write a `Reads[Any]` instance, which is possible but sounds undesirable to me since there already exists a built-in (and faster) deserializer doing exactly this work in Jerkson.