| ▲ | cortesoft a day ago | |
I have written by hand and read JSON hundreds of times. You can tell me I shouldn’t, but I am telling you I do. Messing around with an API with curl, tweaking a request object slightly for testing something, etc. Reading happens even more times. I am constantly printing out API responses when I am coding, verifying what I am seeing matches what I am expecting, or trying to get an idea of the structure of something. Sure, you can tell me I shouldn’t do this and I should just read a spec, but in my experience it is often much faster just to read the JSON directly. Sometimes the spec is outdated, just plain wrong, or doesn’t exist. Being able to read the JSON is a regular part of my day. | ||
| ▲ | lisper a day ago | parent [-] | |
I think there may be a terminological disconnect here. S-expressions and canonical S-expressions are not the same thing. S-expressions (non-canonical) are a comparable to JSON, intended to be read and written by humans, and actually much easier to read and write than JSON because it uses less punctuation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression A canonical S-expression is a binary format, intended to be both generated and parsed by machines, not humans: | ||