Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: > Mathieu Lirzin writes: > >> David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes: >> >>> I think the web interface and the json API are two different >>> "projects". >> >> Agreed. > > Oh! Then why choose json (poor-man's-sexps?) over sexps? I'm mostly > just using sexps with read and write, and pipe through json translators > when crossing the border to the javascript realm.
AIUI JSON usage is not limited to JavaScript since almost every programming language has a parser for it. IMO, this is its main advantage which overcomes its technical limitations. However if using both S-EXP and JSON is possible without adding complexity we could provide them both throught HTTP. -- Mathieu Lirzin
