[appreciatorBus]

If you control both ends of the pipe, then sure. But for better or worse, large chunks of infrastructure expect to send or receive JSON.

[__s]

csv/tsv are alive & well for interorg data pipelines

[amelius]

But JSON uses floats, not integers.

[bee_rider]

Does it really? I assumed it used strings.

[Shish2k]

javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation