Learning Julia

What is JSON?

JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is like the gold standard of data transfer between client and server inside a RESTful web application. The following is an example of what a JSON object looks like:

{
        "name":"rahul",
        "subjects_with_scores":{
                "maths":80,
                "science":90,
                "computers":100
                },
        "country":"india",

}

As you can see, we have a very simple JSON object represented here. It uses a format which uses key:value pairs to store data. These can also have nested structures inside them. For more information, you can look up to the official JSON website, http://www.json.org.

One of the flaws that JSON has is its inability to have comments on it. However, there is a version of JSON in the JSON5 format, which is very similar ...