> Json is so obvious that Douglas Crockford claims to have discovered it — not invented.
I mean, it's called "JavaScript Object Notation" for a reason. From what I know, the beginnings of it really were in the early days of AJAX: People were looking for a good way to encode complex data structures in dynamically generated script tags.
Then someone stumbled over essentially a random syntax element in JavaScript that turned out to be extremely well-suited for that task.
So I think talking about "discovering" JSON as a JS syntax feature which later became its own thing is quite correct here.
I mean, it's called "JavaScript Object Notation" for a reason. From what I know, the beginnings of it really were in the early days of AJAX: People were looking for a good way to encode complex data structures in dynamically generated script tags.
Then someone stumbled over essentially a random syntax element in JavaScript that turned out to be extremely well-suited for that task.
So I think talking about "discovering" JSON as a JS syntax feature which later became its own thing is quite correct here.