> Well, things shouldn't be like that. Ain't that the story of this planet. That said - I'm not really sure you can call it bad engineering. It turns out tha

> Well, things shouldn't be like that. Ain't that the story of this planet. That said - I'm not really sure you can call it bad engineering. It turns out that people will use whatever is available to suit their needs (and god help you if you try to predetermine all the strange edge-cases they'll use it for... https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/). For every one developer that's had to debug a json parser compatibility issue, there are probably a million other developers happily solving real world problems with JSON with no issues at all.