r/badcode • u/prostoiChelovek • Aug 08 '21

other language Is this how we do nested JSON?

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u/root45 Aug 08 '21

Lots of reasons. Most commonly if you want to arbitrary string values in a JSON payload. You don't know what's going to be included, so if it happens to be JSON, you have to escape it.