The problem is, programmers can't dictate what JSON should look like in the wild.
We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered.
We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered.
Not JSONs in general, but a sane API would never return something like that.
> We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered.
Nowadays there is OpenAPI, GraphQL, protobuf, etc. and people do bother about such things.
Yeah, because it was ugly as hell and not human-readable.