> Second, JSON always had a parser in JS, so I don't know where that eval nonsense is coming from. Firstly, it sounds like XML ran over your dog or something.

> Second, JSON always had a parser in JS, so I don't know where that eval nonsense is coming from. Firstly, it sounds like XML ran over your dog or something. Sorry to hear about that. It wasn’t particularly hard to use at all, and if you’re dealing with the possibility of emojis in your JSON UUIDs in 2021, one might even say it’s easier to use. If you’re referring to JSON.parse() in “had a parser” above, then you have a temporal problem. Regarding eval(), it’s suggested right in the original RFC for JSON. Check it out. Web developers at the time were following that advice.