• 3abas@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    How is it that you worked with JSON very often and don’t know that it stands for JavaScript Object Notation or what stringify does?

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      23 hours ago

      I use it as a format for, e.g., config files or for serializing data in a human readable format. Mainly from C++, sometimes from Python or C#.

      Never in these years did I stumble over stringify.

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      1 day ago

      Cause json has become ubiquitous in a lot of other contexts. Heck on a ton of Cisco NXOS implementations you can even pipe output to json in the cli. It’s also used in a shitload of application configurations now instead of a flat .conf file too. In fact when I really think about it, I haven’t touched JS in a long freaking time (like years), but have probably touch json at least once a week. I just don’t find it that far fetched that someone would be working with json daily and be incredibly divorced from it’s original implementation.

    • locuester@lemmy.zip
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      They didn’t say they don’t know what it stands for.

      They don’t work with JavaScript. I don’t deal with JS very often at all. I do know stringify, since I did a bunch of JS stuff back in the 2010s. But it’s not unreasonable for a dev to not know JS.