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0 pointslmm3y ago0 comments

Independent JSON implementations can parse and manipulate the same files, since they agree on what the basic datatypes are. S-expression implementations don't; often they don't even agree on what the quoting convention is.

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thrown_223y ago

>since they agree on what the basic datatypes are

That is not the job of the data format, that is the job of the meta data format. That this is still a draft tells you how far behind json is: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html

Again, json is gods way of teaching bad devs why xml is such a mess.

lmmOP3y ago

> That is not the job of the data format, that is the job of the meta data format.

In theory maybe. In practice it's really nice that all JSON documents have the same standard handful of basic datatypes (number, string, etc.).

> Again, json is gods way of teaching bad devs why xml is such a mess.

Maybe that's the lesson bad devs take from it. Good devs take something rather different from it.

thrown_223y ago

>In theory maybe. In practice it's really nice that all JSON documents have the same standard handful of basic datatypes (number, string, etc.).

You missed boolean. That's it. Those are the supported types by json. But tell me more about how you can guess the type of 1515151515151 without context.

>Maybe that's the lesson bad devs take from it. Good devs take something rather different from it.

Thank you, people like you are the reason why I can quit my job and any time and find another one paying mid six figures to fix your messes.

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thrown_223y ago

>since they agree on what the basic datatypes are

Again, json is gods way of teaching bad devs why xml is such a mess.

lmmOP3y ago

> That is not the job of the data format, that is the job of the meta data format.

In theory maybe. In practice it's really nice that all JSON documents have the same standard handful of basic datatypes (number, string, etc.).

> Again, json is gods way of teaching bad devs why xml is such a mess.

Maybe that's the lesson bad devs take from it. Good devs take something rather different from it.

thrown_223y ago

>In theory maybe. In practice it's really nice that all JSON documents have the same standard handful of basic datatypes (number, string, etc.).

You missed boolean. That's it. Those are the supported types by json. But tell me more about how you can guess the type of 1515151515151 without context.

>Maybe that's the lesson bad devs take from it. Good devs take something rather different from it.

Thank you, people like you are the reason why I can quit my job and any time and find another one paying mid six figures to fix your messes.

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