| Auther here - thanks for responding! I really do appreciate it. > The trend seems to be in the opposite direction. People became frustrated with the lack of types in Python and JavaScript, hence we get Python with typing and TypeScript. Regarding typing, what I have tried to achieve is the best of both worlds. In unify-jdocs, we have the concept of typed document. This is a document that defines the structure of the JSON document. It defines what the "type" of a leaf node is i.e. integer, string etc. The validation / determination against this type is however done at runtime. This, I feel is acceptable because whenever we add a JSON path to a document, the first thing we would do is to test the read / write of that path. And any type mismatch would get caught there immediately. And so, from the point of view of being able to read / write / validate in a single line of code (even though dynamically) provides much simplicity and ease of use as compared to using POJOs. Plus we always know the exact JSON path we are dealing with. Usually, I would prefer static typing but, in a scenario, where we can have hundreds of JSON document types (we deal with more than 500 in the same application), complex JSON document (ours go down more than ten levels deep with hundreds of JSON paths) and where the document structures may undergo change over project lifetime, the use of read / writing using a single line of code has many benefits. I shudder to think of hundreds (if not thousands) of POJO classes, the writing of accessor methods (null / empty handling, namespace etc.) and what it would take to refactor in the face of change. Just my opinion based on my experience in the past. > I think you will find less traction with this method of posting to HN. People want a clickable link to look at the project The clickable link to the repo / documentation is actually in the text (https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs). In the case of this post, I felt it more important for people to read the text rather than be directly pointed to the contents of the link and hence this approach. |