I was reading something on HN recently and I ended up on this wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B

I was reading something on HN recently and I ended up on this wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack It got me thinking about it. JSON is annoyingly simple at times, yes. But that also protects it from some pretty gnarly stuff seen in XML and YAML. I suspect it's a considerable contributor as to why it's the choice transport format. I wouldn't toss it in with XML just yet.