I read the comments before the article, and it took me a minute to figure out why: Of course, JSON is much simpler to parse than JS. For anything large enough

I read the comments before the article, and it took me a minute to figure out why: Of course, JSON is much simpler to parse than JS. For anything large enough to matter, I think you'd want to deliver it as an application/json blob, anyway. Or use protobuf.