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Internet Object — A better JSON?

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4 min readJan 8, 2023

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TThe Internet Object is a data serialization standard that uses key-value pairs to describe structured data. Internet objects, commonly known as I-Objects or io, are a data format comparable to JSON that is intended to be more efficient and adaptable than JSON. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) developed io as a substitute for JSON, with the intention of improving on JSON’s constraints while keeping backwards compatibility. In this essay, we will look at the differences between the two and determine if io is better than JSON or not.

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Io is intended to be simple to read and write for both people and machines. It employs a straightforward, lightweight grammar based on parentheses and whitespace. Strings, integers, booleans, null, symbols, dates, and more complicated data structures such as lists and maps are all supported.

Io is often used for transferring data over the internet or storing data in a file. It is commonly used in web development and other applications where data needs to be transferred between different systems or environments.

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