Re:Show HN: JSON5 — modern JSON
by mryan on Monday May 28, 2012 @05:41AM
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You should try relaxing a bit more, this seems like an incredibly silly thing to get worked up about. There are plenty of legitimate things in the world to get angry about - object serialisers are not one of them.
IMHO, aggressive comments that contain nothing but sarcasm are not welcome here. Let's try and keep the place a bit friendly (or at least grown-up and professional), even if we disagree. If you are going to be sarcastic, at least have the decency to make an interesting point at the same time.
> When was Crockford elected to set the rules for programmers and why wasn't I given a vote?
Crockford was obviously not "elected" in any official sense. However, he produced something that the programming language needed, and it very quickly became a standard. Have you ever used JSON in a project? Then you implicitly voted for JSON and, by extension, Crockford.
> Oh, he was never elected? Why the fuck should I care about what one man thinks then?
Because the rest of the industry has decided that JSON's benefits outweigh its downsides, and using it is a net positive. JSON is not perfect, but it solves an annoying problem rather elegantly.
IMHO, aggressive comments that contain nothing but sarcasm are not welcome here. Let's try and keep the place a bit friendly (or at least grown-up and professional), even if we disagree. If you are going to be sarcastic, at least have the decency to make an interesting point at the same time.
> When was Crockford elected to set the rules for programmers and why wasn't I given a vote?
Crockford was obviously not "elected" in any official sense. However, he produced something that the programming language needed, and it very quickly became a standard. Have you ever used JSON in a project? Then you implicitly voted for JSON and, by extension, Crockford.
> Oh, he was never elected? Why the fuck should I care about what one man thinks then?
Because the rest of the industry has decided that JSON's benefits outweigh its downsides, and using it is a net positive. JSON is not perfect, but it solves an annoying problem rather elegantly.