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		rzzzt on July 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Schemastore.org – schemas for all commonly known J... The advantage is that you don't need to have another parser at the ready to parse your schema definition.

ucarion on July 29, 2020 [–]

You can also more easily generate schemas, or generate things from schemas, if they're in JSON.

Sure, you can still do these things when schemas are a non-JSON format, but it increases the barrier of entry to writing tooling on top of schemas.

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