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by hnriot 4790 days ago
It's JavaScript, that's the syntax notation for JavaScript objects. Sure it resembles lisp and python, but that's just how languages come to be. If I were to invent a new language, if likely use {} for dictionaries and [] for lists too.

Lisp is harder to read than JavaScript because it doesn't disambiguation between lists and dictionaries in a clear way like js and python do.