Well, there is a language that's perfectly suited to JSON serialization, and it has inheritance but not static-typing. The point here is that designing a langu

Well, there is a language that's perfectly suited to JSON serialization, and it has inheritance but not static-typing. The point here is that designing a language around the current fashion in serialization is a bad idea. The problem as laid out in the article is unsolvable. A serialization format can automatically capture the semantics of a given language's native data structures, or it can easily interoperate with other languages, but not both. JSON hits a sweet spot on the web because it captures a large subset of Javascript's data structures, while being simple and inflexible enough that other languages can work with it via libraries.