Eh? It is easy to read and write, the syntax is simple and unambiguous. It also maps easily to native types of most languages. The backslash escaping is annoyi

Eh? It is easy to read and write, the syntax is simple and unambiguous. It also maps easily to native types of most languages. The backslash escaping is annoying, I think HDLC-like symmetric escapes are much nicer - but this is a minor detail and not a deal breaker. There are some people out there who claim that JSON has a problem because many parsers accept some forms of malformed output. I don’t consider this a problem. All of the json data I have seen is either well-formed, or so broken any parser will reject it.