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The meme format is awesome, but JSON differentiates strings with
"
.{ "key": 1337 }
vs{ "key": "1337" }
.You might be thinking yaml? (Though it supports
'
and"
for explicit string types, technically)But integer vs float? Good luck.
The joke is that, regardless of how the type is declared in json, you are parsing a string. (your json blob is just a series of characters, not raw binary data)
Yes. And many people here doesn't seem to get that.
I'm not a dev of any kind. I occasionally write some bash and awk scriots to automate some things and if I need some kind of plain text (non-binary) data format I prefer tsv over json.
So why do I still get this? Is it just that many json advocates want to make sure others know json does support other data types than plain string?