This is an omission from not only the JSON standard but also the JavaScript language, JavaScript has no map order and the rest is history. The result is that a

This is an omission from not only the JSON standard but also the JavaScript language, JavaScript has no map order and the rest is history. The result is that all implementations are broken, f.ex. this is how a tree structure has to be implemented with JSON: http://root.rupy.se/meta/user/task/eelzter/4495378139358454353?sort=2 http://root.rupy.se/meta/user/task/eelzter/44953781393584543... It's inefficient, ugly and just wrong.