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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No problem with strings in JSON, until some smart developer you get JSONs from decides to interchangeably use String and number, and maybe a boolean (but only false) to show that the value is not set, and of course null for a missing value that was supposed to be optional all along but go figure that it was