It's embarrassing that most live JSON-based protocols, including my employer's, hearken back to the painful garbage-in garbage-out dawn of the industry (what wi

It's embarrassing that most live JSON-based protocols, including my employer's, hearken back to the painful garbage-in garbage-out dawn of the industry (what with ad hoc validation and no schema at all). It's hard to overstate the importance of every implementation agreeing on whether or not a given message should work. That's the only knock against JSON I know of, apart from bloat of course (but XML is worse).