World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

JSON and Beyond

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford asserts that JSON is incomplete for modern distributed systems. Discover why the creator of JSON is explicitly dropping 'null' in his new binary format, Nota.

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