JSON is the de facto standard for exchanging data on the Internet. It is relatively simple text format inspired by JavaScript. I say “relatively simple” because you can read and understand the entire JSON specification in minutes. Though JSON is a concise format, it is also better used over a slow network in compressed mode. Without any effort, you can compress often JSON files by a factor of ten
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