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They may be shallow comments, but they have a point. JSON is fundamentally unsuitable for anything numerical for a variety of reasons [0]. Thus, it actually can
by tgbugs 5y ago
They may be shallow comments, but they have a point. JSON is fundamentally unsuitable for anything numerical for a variety of reasons [0]. Thus, it actually can't ever even get to the point of being a suitable replacement for expressions in the languages you listed. Most web tech has insidious anti-intellectual designed baked in, and the end result is that people end up rolling their own mutually incompatible bespoke solutions to problems that were solved before the web was even a glimmer in the eyes of the advertising industry.
0. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-infinity-and-nan-json-status-in-ecmascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-in...
- shawnz 5y agoWith s-expressions where that functionality is simply not provided as part of the underlying syntax at all, then every solution is a mutually incompatible bespoke solution. You could just use all string values in JSON and get the same effect.
- ironmagma 5y ago> Most web tech has insidious anti-intellectual designed baked in Citation? I don’t know many people who would call Brendan Eich anti-intellectual for instance.