I can tell this is a C++ thread, heaven forbid you touch anything new within the last 20 years... The JSON obsession is that everything under the moon supports

I can tell this is a C++ thread, heaven forbid you touch anything new within the last 20 years... The JSON obsession is that everything under the moon supports it- and it's a nice easy structure which can be converted to a dynamic or statically typed object with no issues. Plus it's very human readable, so it's great for debugging. If you sit there and ONLY use C++, ok why bother? But many systems need to talk to different systems these days. I can setup a webapi that can communicate with my angular typescript, C#, matlab all through nice easy JSON. Each language just converts it to the object and I'm good to go. The question is why are you so against such a widely accepted format of communication?