alt Hacker NewsThe biggest challenge for formats like this is usually tooling. JSON won largely because: every language supports it, every tool understands it.
Even a technically superior format struggles without that ecosystem.
The biggest challenge for formats like this is usually tooling. JSON won largely because: every language supports it, every tool understands it.
Even a technically superior format struggles without that ecosystem.
And that in turn affects tool adoption. I have dabbled in Lua for interacting with other software such as mpv, but never got much into the weeds with it because it lacks native JSON support, and I need to interact with JSON all the time.