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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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[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I got nothing against other types. Just numbers/misleading types.

Although, enum variants shall have a label field for identification if they aren't automatically inferable.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Well, the issue is that JSON is based on JS types, but other languages can interpret the values in different ways. For example, Rust can interpret a number as a 64 bit int, but JS will always interpret a number as a double. So you cannot rely on numbers to represent data correctly between systems you don't control or systems written in different languages.