Programming smart folks

[Sooner in Tampa]

I have been reading about this product called Jayrock that uses JSON...it comes across to me as a new technology/language to replace XML?? Have any of you really smart people used JSON or Jayrock and if so, what were your thoughts about it?

TIA

[Ike]

ummm..nope. I'd be a little leery of anything claiming to replace XML though, simply because XML has become a widely used standard.

[Sooner in Tampa]

ummm..nope. I'd be a little leery of anything claiming to replace XML though, simply because XML has become a widely used standard.Agreed...that is why is was asking more about it.


JSON finds its main application in Ajax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29) web application programming, as a simple alternative to using XML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML) for asynchronously transmitting structured information between client and server.

[Vaevictis]

http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/12/json-vs-xml-debate

It seems that it's not designed to replace XML so much as it's designed to provide a lighter weight alternative for a sub-set of what XML does.