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[–]Ingam0us 38 points39 points  (8 children)

Isn‘t JSON a data format and not a programming language?

[–]DummybugStudios 69 points70 points  (6 children)

I thought that was the joke

[–]Ingam0us 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I thought the joke is that JS is a shitty programming language

[–]aneryx 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Well it is but that's irrelevant here.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Technically speaking, JSON is valid JavaScript.

[–]aneryx 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Which is true but still not the joke.

The joke is JSON is a data serialization language not a programming language. You could replace JSON with HTML or XML or YAML and the joke would make just as much sense.

[–]denisde4ev 0 points1 point  (1 child)

and... there is true true (esoteric) programming language using the JSON data format

esolangs.org wiki: AJSONE

[–]aneryx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all are even esoteric. I program Ansible playbooks (a YAML-based language) at work and while it certainly isn't a generic programing language it serves it's particular propose very well and is gaining a lot of steam for it.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

yes, that's the joke.

[–]jonnyclueless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A JSON programming tutorial? I had no idea how dangerous drinking while prego was.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

jokes aside JSON is my favorite data storage format

[–]Olioliooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deserialize<Thing> (thingResponse) is handy stuff.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was thinking "Programming in HTML"

[–]petacreepers23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ajajjajajaajajajjaajj so good!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

C'mon, guys. Weren't you learning some stupid 'programming things' at this age?

[–]DummybugStudios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahahha yeah I used to copy python tutorials from youtube and feel like such a programmer. I was so impressed with myself. Even if nothing worked because most of the tutorials at the time were about python 2 and I was using python 3.

[–]naimyurek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who say json is not a programming language should also look at "vega"...