JSON and JavaScript (Interview)
While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write. The JSON Saga - how JSON came about JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON The JSON logo Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!