"Some people focus on the ability for browsers to serialize/deserialize JSON natively... I think there are two other aspects of JSON that are more valuable."
"But the principle benefit of JSON isn't that it is a more efficient representation (which it is), but that it helps you to think better about structure."
"...that the real problems we have to solve with structured data are no longer syntactic, and anyone trying to find a syntactic solution to structured data is really missing the point..."