[godisdad]

> As JSON is such an important part of the web nowadays, it deserves to be treated with more care.

There is a case to be made here but Corba, SOAP and XML-RPC likely looked similarly sticky and eternal in the past

[int_19h]

I don't recall either CORBA or SOAP ever seeing enough penetration to look "eternal" as mainstream tech goes (obviously, and especially with SOAP, there's still plenty of enterprise use). Unlike XML and JSON.

[pjmlp]

They surely were, for anyone doing enterprise during the 2000's.

We had no plans to change to something else.

[mdaniel]

I hear you, but I am not aware of anyone that tried XMLHttpRequest.send('<s:Envelope xmlns:s...') or its '<methodCall>' friend from the browser. I think that's why they cited "of the web" and not "of RPC frameworks"

[pjmlp]

No, because that was server's job on the endpoint.

[_w1tm]

Eternal or not, right now JSON is used everywhere which means the performance gains of a more optimized Stalin would be significant. Just because we don’t know if JSON is around in 10 years doesn’t mean we should settle for burning extra compute on it.