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But.... why?

• felipellrocha 6y ago
  Job security, maybe? Can't think of anything else... This person would certainly never be fireable again after merging that monstrosity
• waltpad 6y ago
  Maybe because it was tempting: JSON is fairly easy to handle, very portable, and when you look at a JSON document, it's straightforward to think about querying it, and thus DB, although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational.
  • nailer 6y ago
    > although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational. You can have structured relational databases (RethinkDB for one, but there are others)