JSON comes from Javascript, it is totally for people to write, like they write Javascript object literals. If it wasn't the case, JSON would have been a binary

JSON comes from Javascript, it is totally for people to write, like they write Javascript object literals. If it wasn't the case, JSON would have been a binary format which is much for efficient for machines to read,write an transmit. That's also why a significant number of JSON libs support comments. they'll make their way into the spec, sooner or later, that's inevitable.