> I don’t understand what you mean by JSON was not invented. It was invented by Douglas Crockford.

Douglas Crockford took his time to write up a specification for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

That specification is, quite literally, "based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999."

It's in the name. There is no way around this.

MDN's doc on JavaScript's eval() vs JSON.parse() refer to JSON as "a subset of JavaScript syntax to represent data."

Claiming that someone discovered JSON makes as much sense as reading the C standard section on struct initialization and proceed to claim you discovered the C struct notation (CSN).

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initializati...