Cheers, mate! > Today I needed to parse some JSON You had some JSON blob, and you actually needed to glean something from it quickly and painlessly. To paraph

Cheers, mate! > Today I needed to parse some JSON You had some JSON blob, and you actually needed to glean something from it quickly and painlessly. To paraphrase Zawinski et al., you then found you had two problems. In this age of big data, the debate between parsable and human-readable state has been resolved. JSON is an anti-pattern that requires supplementary tooling to make any sense of it, nevermind naive readability.