[erlang-questions] No JSON/MAPS interoperability in 17.0?

[Carsten Bormann]

On 09 Mar 2014, at 17:05, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> What about the utter lack of proper specifications around JSON?

JSON is fully specified in RFC 7159.

> The fact that you always have to think about where the JSON will be injected?

Why would you need to think about that?  JSON is usually transported using a data-transparent transfer mechanism such as HTTP.
If it isn’t, you may need some help from an application-specific library, but that is irrelevant for the dominant usage of JSON.

> What about a JSON-encoded string containing "</script>", should that be avoided by Erlang’s builtin parser? What about "]]>"? What about the two characters that are accepted in JSON but not in JavaScript?

The news here may be that in the present decade JSON rarely is transported inside HTML documents or converted into JavaScript for parsing.  So all this is entirely irrelevant.

> Just because other languages include such a thing doesn’t mean Erlang should too.

Of course that would be a weak reason.  But it's a straw man.
The reason for supporting JSON at the standard library level is that JSON is the most widely used format to interchange data.

Not having it is fine for a language that doesn’t care about interchanging data.

Grüße, Carsten