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Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' (thelemmy.club)

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 64 points 12 hours ago

i've designed my own communication protocols that run directly on udp. i couldn't tell you either.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I refuse to believe you couldn't infer what this is, you're way too smart and you could definitely just guess.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago

I mean, that’s fine, right up till you have to communicate with something else. Given that 99% of APIs out there use JSON.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 6 hours ago

only on the web.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

Uh-huh, and where do you think most “something else that you would interact with” live from a computing standpoint. It’s not like you’re using X12 or HL7 everywhere.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 hours ago

you're a few layers too high up then. i work mostly in ble and lora networks. json is waaay to verbose.

[-] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Wait until you hear about this XML thing.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 hours ago

Ima guess it's javascript-ese to turn a json object into a string, perhaps for serialization. But no clue, coding for decades but always hated js, I guess my way through with a linter and IDE when I absolutely, positively, cannot find an alternative, which seldom happens.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 22 points 9 hours ago

I mean, the meme could've been ‘oh, it's JS, shoot me’

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

Before yaml, I used json with Ruby it was way nicer to read than xml config files ( but way before that I started using it with PHP and Actionscript)

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago

Yeah you don’t have to be using JavaScript to use json. Yes I know it’s part of the name, but it’s just an object notation which is the other part of the name, and this has become widely accepted for use in nearly all popular languages and frameworks.