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What is JSON?

A lightweight text format for sending structured data, the lingua franca of web APIs.

JSON is plain text built from objects ({"key": value}), arrays ([1, 2, 3]), strings, numbers, booleans, and null. That's the whole spec.

Despite the name (JavaScript Object Notation) it's language-neutral. Every modern language has a built-in parser.

Common gotchas: no comments, no trailing commas, all keys must be strings, no support for dates (use ISO 8601 strings).

Minimal JSON

{"name":"Ada","skills":["math","logic"]}

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