> It's also (almost) a subset of Python Yes, one of my main uses of JSON in my personal projects (and at one of my previous companies) is to serialize a Python

> It's also (almost) a subset of Python Yes, one of my main uses of JSON in my personal projects (and at one of my previous companies) is to serialize a Python dict to disk or network (and to read a Python dict from disk or network, of course). If I keep the members to int/float/str/dict/list, it works beautifully, and if I need to serialize anything more complex, I can always use jsonpickle.