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> By being at the intersection, [JSON] turns out to be the thing that everybody can agree on, and so it's really easy to pass data back and forth. Prior data interchange formats tended to try to be the union of all the languages, and that turns out to be horrendously complex and really difficult to deal with. JSON by being so simple actually became really easy to use.

- Douglas Crockford ('discoverer' of JSON)

https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=730

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What amazes me is that I regularly train people in IT that have never used JSON themself and are not sure what's it good for.

So something that is quite everywhere now, is simple, easy, and has existed for a long time, is still far from being a given.

It definitely puts in perspective people that are telling me that my webpack configuration from last year is obsolete, that I should ditch everything and learn Elm, that nix is the future of package management or that webassembly is going to change everything next week.

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