> Disagree. JSON became popular because it was extremely easy to implement (both for marshaling and consuming), and because it was extremely lightweight. A can

> Disagree. JSON became popular because it was extremely easy to implement (both for marshaling and consuming), and because it was extremely lightweight. A canonical S-expression parser is strictly easier to implement, given that S-expressions consist only of lists and byte sequences (no numbers or objects), and is even more lightweight. JSON's big advantage was that it was familiar to a JavaScript programmer, that's all.