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What about all those java, ruby, python and C# services that expose JSON based REST services. JSON is widely used for network API, config files and data stores.
by diroussel 7y ago
What about all those java, ruby, python and C# services that expose JSON based REST services. JSON is widely used for network API, config files and data stores.
- rhabarba 7y ago"Too many people already do the wrong thing" is not a good excuse to stick with the wrong thing.
- afiori 7y agoBut you have yet to say why JSON is worse than your preferred alternative. I agree that it is not perfect (for many use cases I prefer TOML personally), but I cannot see how it is worse that S-expressions (except for the trailing comma issue, that is a sin in itself)
- dragonwriter 7y agoNo, but that's not the claim: the claim was JSON is irrelevant outside of JavaScript, which is clearly false given all the use in non-JS environments. Whether it's the “wrong thing” is another issue, though I've yet to see a standard of “wrong” proposed in the thread for which that is accurate.
- geofft 7y agoIt is not the wrong thing. You were arguing that it was wrong because it was rarely used; you have yet to prove your point that it is in any way wrong. And, perhaps, all those people know better than you.
- heinrichhartman 7y agoLOL! DNS, HTTP, XML, Linux, C, are all terrible if you look close enough. So ... should we ditch all of this? Wide adoption and popularity trumps "being wrong" everyday.
- rhabarba 7y agoHonestly, the world would not need Linux. But that's a different debate entirely.