Comment by latexr
3 hours ago
I’m not the person you asked, but given the choice I avoid a language without JSON parsing officially supported because I need that frequently. It’s the reason I never picked up Lua, despite being interested in it.
3 hours ago
I’m not the person you asked, but given the choice I avoid a language without JSON parsing officially supported because I need that frequently. It’s the reason I never picked up Lua, despite being interested in it.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your anecdote. Upvoted.
I am openly admitting I don't care. Such libraries are in a huge demand and every programming language ecosystem gains them quite early. So to me the risk of malicious code in them is negligibly small.
To me it’s not just the risk of malicious code, but also convenience. For example, if I’m using a scripted language and sharing it in some form with users, I don’t want to have to worry about keeping the library updated, and fight with the package manager, and ship extraneous files, and…
Ah, I don't work with scripting languages though. I understand the difference in usages. Your use-case is quite valid.