alt Hacker News> "JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a simple data interchange format [...]"
Clearly it isn't, otherwise every language would have sorted it out by... a long time ago.
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It IS a simple format. And you can make a parser yourself very easily. Doesn’t mean that it will be the fastest or most memory efficient. Don’t confuse format and implementation
Some languages have a culture of doing things correctly and conforming strictly to the spec. These languages have indeed sorted it out years ago. Haskell for example. Any language that doesn’t have a special number type for JSON is a half-assed implementation, because 1e1000 is a perfectly valid JSON number that is beyond the typical IEEE754 double precision floating point numbers; does your language handle that correctly? Haskell does. This is but a small example of a strong culture bias towards correctness.
My company uses JSUN (/sarcasm) where O = object, and U = union.
Who knew the same object could have completely different definitions based on some flags?
Simple data format does not imply that API to work with it is easy to get right.
I mean, it is better than the disaster that is CSV...
Ok so nothing is simple then?
Meet the "Simple Object Access Protocol": https://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/