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by _flux 88 days ago
Quoting my original message:

> And why do we not anymore make use of it, but instead implemented separate JSON loading functionality in JavaScript?

In other words: I'm asking for reasons why was native JSON JavaScript module created, if we already had eval.

> Can you think of any reasons beyond performance?

One of the reasons is that native JSON parser is faster than eval: give some other reason.