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by joshlemer 1852 days ago
But who cares? The fact that the syntax of this language is JSON-based rather than S-Expression based is an odd point to have the majority of commenters nitpicking about. When somebody posts an interesting new service to Hacker News, we don't have similar comments saying "why does this api serve up JSON and not S Expressions / Protobuf / Avro / CSV / XML???"

What about regular every day programming languages? When a language is posted to Hacker News we don't laugh them out of the room with "hahah! Why didn't you use S expression syntax for this language??"