Why is JSON data a second-class citizen in TW?

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@Maurycy

and there are entire huge libraries in existence for querying and handling it in various ways.

javascript library’s ?
cant help pondering what is at the top of your list of huge libraries

in my mind at least due to it being a sub set of js
id have thought all that was needed would be part of js-lang

that said i guess a lot of (parser) effort is put into avoiding “eval”
and …

@pmario

The elephant in the room: Security. If we would allow users to directly use JavaScript like wikitext, we would need to parse and sanitise it, to avoid misuse. That’s slow and super complex.

( ** never found a case that prefixing with “in” was not more appropriate )

parse and sanitise

a topic which seams to be wandering toward the territory of
GitHub - Engid/TDOPjs: TDOP parser in and for JavaScript · GitHub or some subset of that or similar ( ftr i read that

@linonetwo

tw’s parser tree is an example of parser conbinator.

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