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JSON is close to using the most fundamental logical primitives needed to structure serialized data. It's a set of value types, an ordered collection and a key-v
by Kinrany 4y ago
JSON is close to using the most fundamental logical primitives needed to structure serialized data. It's a set of value types, an ordered collection and a key-value collection.
- mort96 4y agoWith a syntax that's ridiculously easy to write a parser and generator for (with the one exception of high unicode character escape sequences being encoded as two \uXXXX escapes after each other which form a surrogate pair rather than one \uXXXXXXXX escape, which is a bitch to deal with unless you use UTF-16 internally). It's certainly easier to write a mostly-correct JSON parser than an XML parser.
- artificialLimbs 4y agoBut why not just return hypermedia, assuming a web page?
- Kinrany 4y agoWhat do you mean? JSON can be hypermedia, you can even click hyperlinks in browsers.
- artificialLimbs 4y agoYou can't return JSON to the browser. (I mean you can, but why lol?) You have to interpret both up and down stream with a JSON parser (usually JS). In contrast, you can return hypertext/hypermedia directly to the browser and the user can interact with it immediately, without needing translation layers. A primer: https://dev.to/rajasegar/html-over-the-wire-is-the-future-of-web-development-542c https://dev.to/rajasegar/html-over-the-wire-is-the-future-of...