Naming Change?
We have seen quite a few cases in the past where meanings of acronyms for technologies in our little niche of the world commonly known as the Internet have been dropped for one reason or another. Sometimes this happened explicitly and sometimes people just stopped thinking about the meaning and only use the acronym.
I hereby suggest that we do the same for JSON and drop its meaning “JavaScript Object Notation” all together. Why, you ask? Projects like CouchDB use JSON for solving problems that have nothing to do with JavaScript at all, it is supported by most (if not all) major programming languages for REST-style data exchange with other languages without touching WS-*, and our shiny new Web 2.0 thing uses JSON as the new XML. For me these are at least three good reasons to get rid of the explicit connection to JavaScript, no?
The JavaScript Object Notation is dead. Long live the JSON!
