Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

  • @[email protected]
    11•6 months ago

    The joke is that, regardless of how the type is declared in json, you are parsing a string. (your json blob is just a series of characters, not raw binary data)

    • @[email protected]
      2•6 months ago

      Yes. And many people here doesn’t seem to get that.

      I’m not a dev of any kind. I occasionally write some bash and awk scriots to automate some things and if I need some kind of plain text (non-binary) data format I prefer tsv over json.

      So why do I still get this? Is it just that many json advocates want to make sure others know json does support other data types than plain string?