why JSON?

[fgmccabe]

Why is JSON called out as a special case in this proposal.
Even if we accepted this, where are all the other types (DOM Element, CSS, ..., URL, ... )?
Editorial: I think that it might be better to see web bindings as a special case of the more general inter-module binding problem.

[lukewagner]

Agreed that JSON doesn't belong; a wasm module could just import JSON.parse, passing its string argument from linear memory via the (in the current Overview.md parlance) STRING binding.

(Overview.md is long overdue for a rewrite/refresh based on the recent TPAC discussion. I'm waiting on some discussions to bottom out on how to frame the updated proposal, but plan to do that over the next few months.)

[pchickey]

Closing as out-of-date: the proposal no longer makes a special case for JSON.