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Pradyumna Joshi edited this page Oct 13, 2017 · 1 revision

Why JSON

Advantages:

  • It is machine and human readable
  • It is concise (compared to XML)
  • It is supported in many languages
  • It works with standard CLI tools

Disadvantages

  • It is schema-less and fragile
  • It is slow. Languages have to convert JSON strings to binary representations and back.

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