>JSON maps well to javascript types, but not anything else. Except it does. Take python. Ruby. Any language that has a notion of dicts, lists and strings/ints/

>JSON maps well to javascript types, but not anything else. Except it does. Take python. Ruby. Any language that has a notion of dicts, lists and strings/ints/floats. That's basically every high level language ever. Even exotic stuff like tcl. And e.g. C, a low level language, has a thousand implementations of those same structures.