• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Not sure every software engineer needs to know this. If they’d said web developer I suppose this would really be expected knowledge, but then you’d probably want to shoot them anyway.

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      8 days ago

      Web developer, or business developer. A lot of inter-system communications these days is in JSON, whether there is any JavaScript involved or not.

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 days ago

        Sure, but then you’d be using json_encode, json.dumps, Json.Serialize, etc., not JSON.stringify.

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        8 days ago

        Do people really conflate json and javascript normally though? Java and javacript I get but no one actually says the full json acronym and it basically has an identity of its own.

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      8 days ago

      A lot of info going through the network is either using or converted to either json or xml. If the software being developed is entirely local, then sure