With the origins in SGML in the early 90s, there were some basic editors for manual creation. I suspect the popularity was due to the sax parser and “interop”

With the origins in SGML in the early 90s, there were some basic editors for manual creation. I suspect the popularity was due to the sax parser and “interop” between C++ and Java. To me coming from ObjC++, json is just a serialised dictionary.