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+---
+language: json
+filename: learnjson.json
+contributors:
+ - ["Anna Harren", "https://github.com/iirelu"]
+ - ["Marco Scannadinari", "https://github.com/marcoms"]
+---
+
+As JSON is an extremely simple data-interchange format, this is most likely going
+to be the simplest Learn X in Y Minutes ever.
+
+JSON in its purest form has no actual comments, but most parsers will accept
+C-style (`//`, `/* */`) comments. For the purposes of this, however, everything is
+going to be 100% valid JSON. Luckily, it kind of speaks for itself.
+
+```json
+{
+ "key": "value",
+
+ "keys": "must always be enclosed in double quotes",
+ "numbers": 0,
+ "strings": "Hellø, wørld. All unicode is allowed, along with \"escaping\".",
+ "has bools?": true,
+ "nothingness": null,
+
+ "big number": 1.2e+100,
+
+ "objects": {
+ "comment": "Most of your structure will come from objects.",
+
+ "array": [0, 1, 2, 3, "Arrays can have anything in them.", 5],
+
+ "another object": {
+ "comment": "These things can be nested, very useful."
+ }
+ },
+
+ "silliness": [
+ {
+ "sources of potassium": ["bananas"]
+ },
+ [
+ [1, 0, 0, 0],
+ [0, 1, 0, 0],
+ [0, 0, 1, "neo"],
+ [0, 0, 0, 1]
+ ]
+ ],
+
+ "alternative style": {
+ "comment": "check this out!"
+ , "comma position": "doesn't matter - as long as it's before the value, then it's valid"
+ , "another comment": "how nice"
+ },
+
+ "that was short": "And, you're done. You now know everything JSON has to offer."
+}
+```