Interoperability

Interoperability has to do with how easy is it for different frameworks, libraries, and languages to consume the schema. In this criterion, JSON Schema wins hands down.

The benefits of using a standardized schema such as JSON Schema is that the same schema file may be used by multiple code bases. For example, as our platform grows, we may have multiple internal services that each need to validate user data; some may even be written in another language (for example, Python).

Instead of having multiple definitions of the user schema in different languages, we can use the same schema file, as there are JSON Schema validators for all major languages:

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