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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by vidarh on Sunday July 02, 2017 @09:21AM (#14682365)
The point is that JSON started out as "data you can eval() in Javascript" pretty much. It gained the traction it did because it is literally a subset of javascript object notation so it was trivial to support.
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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by zdkl on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:24PM (#14683144)
By the way is this whence the "stringly typed" phrase originated or are there previous instances?
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