[alex-robbins]

> a sort of homoiconicity of code and data (hence JSON as a data format)

I get that "sort of" was an attempt to hedge, but really, this isn't even close. Homoiconicity here would be if all javascript source files were valid JSON documents. A weaker version would be if it were common to use JSON to represent an arbitrary javascript program, but I've never heard of that, either. (For a good explanation of this weaker sense of homoiconicity, this stackoverflow page [1] is pretty good.)

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...

To use Clojure as an example of a language that is homoiconic, you can take any Clojure source file, send it to an EDN parser (EDN being Clojure's equivalent of JSON), and not only will parsing succeed, but the result will be a complete representation of the program (you could execute it if you wanted to). In contrast, if you try to send JS to a JSON parser, you'll get an error as soon as it hits a function definition, or a for loop, or an operator, or whatever.