My simplified version of python's json.loads in Go

jsonLoads

func jsonLoads(j string) map[string]interface{} {
    sB := []byte(j)
    var f interface{}
    // At this point the Go value in f would be a map whose keys are strings and whose values are themselves stored as empty interface values:
    // If the json is formated wrong, f will be nil :TODO catch that error
    json.Unmarshal(sB, &f)
    // To access this data we can use a type assertion to access `f`'s underlying map[string]interface{}:
    m := f.(map[string]interface{})
    return m
}