alt Hacker NewsI always thought that the name JSON5 pretends to be nothing more than a pun on Michael Jackson's original band, The Jackson 5. It sounds too similar!
If it didn't originate from that, what else?
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dcre • 12/08/2024
Ha. There is no way that’s what it means unless you read that somewhere.
benkaiser • 12/11/2024
I agree with the others that ES5 is likely where it came from, but my mind also jumped to The Jackson 5.
zeven7 • 12/08/2024
I assumed it was a play on HTML5 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The project description describes it as json plus syntax from emcascript 5.1 (commonly called ES5) [the official name of javascript is emcascript]. I imagine that is where the name comes from.
Although it doesn't really make sense since most of the stuff they add predates ES5.