Right i'm building a new interview test. Short and simple, I give the potential hire a laptop with a browser open on this: http://jasonette.com/

If he / she recoils in horror, they are hired.

What, why, just why

@inpothet are you looking for a new role at the minute?

I died inside at, "ALL YOU NEED IS JSON".

@ragnarr023 I died inside when I realised I knew someone who proposed the same idea ... meaning at least more than 1 person thinks this makes sense.

It's so depressing

Guys, keep it down! Don't let any PM know!

The horror...
The horror...

Am i the only one who thinks this isn't a bad idea?

@Dittoslash noup

@Dittoslash @mundo03 ... I have no words for the both of you ... JSON guys ... JSON!!!

... strings for everything!

Is this real or did you make that site?

Sounded amazing until I saw the examples, then I was , ah we are back to the reason yaml, sass type syntaxes were created, we are lazy and like pretty things, not unintended ASCII art

Eh, could be worse. It's an interesting concept, and I'll be interested in where it goes

Seems like a sort of revival of ActiveX as it was in the 90's. Great idea for the naive - give unknown people on the internet the chance to run their code natively on your device whenever you visit their web sites.

As Dilbert would say, "What could possibly go wrong?"

@franck no unfortunately someone actually invested time on this

@iam13islucky the trash ... it will go in the trash.

Every UI component is now a string in JSON, can you not see how horrifically shit that is. It is widely known that SDK's that require strings for everything are badly designed ... now imagine it's the entire development tool.

Imagine the endless bugs, imagine all the design patterns that can't be used.

@practiseSafeHex Eh, whatever. Let people use what they wanna use. This person is enjoying what they've built, which is more important to me than forcing them to use something else. As long as they aren't doing things that cause viruses or aren't secure, I don't care one bit.

@iam13islucky as far, as I saw it, updates get fetched directly from the server, as it's just updating a JSON response, so it won't go through an approval process in an appstore (not talking about the security of those, but still...)

Furthermore, if I MITM that json response and I have access to native phone api's... I'm pretty sure, we could have some fun with that. Why not open the camera and transmit every thing to my server while having a floating overlay in which I display the original content? Or change the links to open a malicious site, that looks similar to something you trust? Kiss your passwords goodbye.

@pascalwacker yes exactly!

@practiseSafeHex to be honest yes

So thats a real thing then? I was expecting a jole or some seriously bad code. Huh, interesting admittedly, but hell naw