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Why Not JSON?

by whoiskatrin on 12/18/23, 6:37 PM with 4 comments

  • by not_your_vase on 12/18/23, 7:08 PM

    Okay, there are a bunch of reasons against text-based formats. But what are the reasons to use this? This looks like another homebrew mostly-binary format, that makes one's eyes bleed when it has to be debugged.

  • by java-man on 12/18/23, 6:41 PM

    A missing use case in both JSON and Muon: tabular data.

    JSON was made for javascript, rather than a useful or convenient data exchange format.

  • by Frictus on 12/18/23, 7:22 PM

    It doesn't even show an example of a json file and its equivalent in muon.

  • by pestatije on 12/18/23, 7:01 PM

    the website hijacked my tabs history