[jkarneges]

Other than jokes, I think the closest we have to something real is XMPP-FTW, which operates as a gateway and JSON-ifies everything between itself and the XMPP server.

Personally, I'd like to see XMPP go format-agnostic, just like HTTP. What's funny is that there was already a competing protocol that did exactly this called BEEP, created around the same time as XMPP. Developers ultimately preferred XMPP, and I'd attribute this partly to the fact that the payload format (XML) was baked into the protocol. Back then, people loved their XML about the same as people love their JSON today.

Interesting how things change in 10 years.