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Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' (programming.dev)

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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure every software engineer needs to know this. If they'd said web developer I suppose this would really be expected knowledge, but then you'd probably want to shoot them anyway.

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

honestly, this is used for debugging. Why not just pass the object as value to the console.log()

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

Not only used for debugging and also if you log a complex object, the way it gets displayed in the console is not always easy/possible to fully inspect. It will get.. truncated for lack of a better word