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.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

But they keep implying they are software engineers using JSON in a development capacity... I'd understand a system admin updating a config file to only be familiar with the syntax, but if you're consuming JSON in your code you either understand the spec enough to implement it, or you didn't write that code...

Something rubbed me wrong about not knowing what JSON is and insulting web developers as not real software engineers in the same breath.