this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
997 points (97.4% liked)

Programmer Humor

32896 readers
178 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
anzo@programming.dev
Feyter@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
997
Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' (programming.dev)
submitted 1 week ago by CodiUnicorn@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
146 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've heard both. Personally, I will continue to pronounce it "Jay-Sawn" until I hear a damn good reason for why I should stop.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What if I told you the guy that invented it is named Jason?

He’s probably not, but what if?

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn, that's a good reason

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

He's called Doug.