JSON Considered Harmful

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So you want to powerful systems to talk to each other over a network with limited capacity and unreliable connections? Let's try to build the worst "universal" notation possible: Ensure that the common notation that all the systems speak is extremely low-level, so that you have to encode/decode all the complexity of modern programming languages...
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