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i've designed my own communication protocols that run directly on udp. i couldn't tell you either.
Ima guess it's javascript-ese to turn a json object into a string, perhaps for serialization. But no clue, coding for decades but always hated js, I guess my way through with a linter and IDE when I absolutely, positively, cannot find an alternative, which seldom happens.
I mean, the meme could've been ‘oh, it's JS, shoot me’
Before yaml, I used json with Ruby it was way nicer to read than xml config files ( but way before that I started using it with PHP and Actionscript)
Yeah you don’t have to be using JavaScript to use json. Yes I know it’s part of the name, but it’s just an object notation which is the other part of the name, and this has become widely accepted for use in nearly all popular languages and frameworks.
Are there any other languages that would also have Json.Stringify? I only read JS sometimes and never write those, so I may be wrong about that.
JSON itself is fine, yeah
To add to other replies, I think there are some Java libraries that use this method name, or close to it. It’s so common that the term is well recognized on its own, regardless of the exact method names in whatever library or language.
It is recognisable, with that I agree
Python has a popular library called "Flask" that uses stringify(). Although, python has an implementation in its standard library called jason.dumps()
Holy cow! I don't think I've ever met another developer who actually admits to using action script back in the day. Greetings fellow old person!
Yup pre iPhone front end development was all over the place. I actually started with Macromedia flash when it was still just a few actions. I think 1998-99 was the first time I used it. AS3 was a neat language though, I still kinda miss it now and then.