It’s a the right shift assignment operator so x >>= 4
right shifts x by 4 and assigns the result back to x. The code editor is displaying single double wide symbol (ligature) instead of the three character long operator >=
, I discovered today these are in fact well loved by some coders.
Neat! Could you expand on why someone might prefer to use this instead of other json parsing libs such as nlohmann or simdjson?