> Well, JSON would have never been created in C++. Why? Marshalling is a common requirement that's not a monopoly of a single language, and there is no technic

> Well, JSON would have never been created in C++. Why? Marshalling is a common requirement that's not a monopoly of a single language, and there is no technical limitation on C++ that stops it from parsing any particular data interchange language. > The moral equivalent in statically compiled language was dumping struct memory raw out to files. If you've chosen to go the miopic path and focus on JSON's eval trick, you'd be missing the whole point of JSON. If you're focusing on marshalling languages, you're somehow pretending that things like Apache Avro, Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift, etc don't exist. > And many programs did that, it just wasn't platform independent. I don't think this is true at all. See examples above.