Make JSON your lingua franca

Code faster by making json your lingua franca.

Making json your lingua franca means making json the way you and your programs represent data, with few exceptions.

Why? It's handhackable, transparent, widely supported, and fast to code against.

Handhackable

Handhackable data formats can be written directly by hand which reduces coding speed drag from dependencies and toolchains.

Let's say we need to whip up a custom piece of data for a test. Maybe it's a weird corner case. Or maybe we’re running experiments to learn how the code works.

In another format, like protobuf, we'd have to first import some libraries. Learn how to textually represent a protobuf object. Write the textual representation of what we really want. Then use the libraries to convert that object into what we really want. And then finally, we can send it to the program.

With json, we can just write the json directly, which is what we really want and send it to the program. No libraries needed, no boiler plate, intermediate r…