Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by yakshaving_jgt 1104 days ago
> Crockford has been a net negative to JS for 20 years now.

I'd say JSON is pretty successful as a protocol, even beyond JavaScript.

Also The Good Parts is probably as important now as it was when it was published. The language hasn't improved — it's just grown.
1 comments
taeric 1104 days ago
JSON is a protocol? I'm not sure I follow.

That said, JSON is still an interesting study. Basically, "take the object literal syntax of javascript, get rid of functions, require double quotes, don't recognize comments." It is good to get folks to stop using 'eval' to pull some data into the browser, though it is a shame that couldn't have been preserved a bit more safely.

And, of course, json-lines and then the steady expanse of json-schema is looking to be hilarious. How long until we add in namespaces to the idea? :D

link
yakshaving_jgt 1104 days ago
Ok, perhaps not strictly a protocol, but a data format. I'm using the word a little more loosely than some dictionaries suggest, though it appears to comport with this definition published on Cloudflare.

> In networking, a protocol is a set of rules for formatting and processing data. Network protocols are like a common language for computers. The computers within a network may use vastly different software and hardware; however, the use of protocols enables them to communicate with each other regardless.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-a-...

link
tuukkah 1104 days ago
You should have a look at JSON-LD: a major part of it is adding namespaces ("prefixes") and a default namespace ("@vocab") to JSON: https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#compact-iris
link
taeric 1104 days ago
Oh wow. At what point do we just switch back to XML?
link