7 engineers on Hacker News describe using JSON first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We use JSON because it's standard, human-readable, mostly self-described and works natively with Javascript.”
endorse · production · ahtihn · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to flatbuffers and back to JSON because in the end of the day, for our data, data compression with JSON+gzip was similarly-sized”
endorse · production · franciscop · 2023-01-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run into issues relating to interoperability problems between different implementations exactly because of the issues discussed in the article”
regret · production · peterkelly · 2021-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There's a whole ecosystem around JSON, and I like that ecosystem.”
endorse · production · heavenlyhash · 2016-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But for what we use JSON for, not being Turing complete is a feature.”
endorse · production · skybrian · 2014-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use to write purely is JSON, and when we switched over to YAML we were surprised how much easier it was when writing it day in day out.”
neutral · production · gervwyk · 2021-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced most of our JSON config files at my last job with either YAML or JSON5”
neutral · production · reissbaker · 2019-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?