# No Grammar to Rule Them All: A Survey of JSON-style DSLs for Visualization

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Today I learnt about a danger specific to DSL designers; ‘language cacophony’!

Stumbled upon an interesting study of DSL’s with JSON syntax. While there are a lot of JSON syntax DSL’s this review only covers infovis DSL’s, but mentions the generation of XML DSL’s that preceded them: No Grammar to Rule Them All: A Survey of JSON-style DSLs for Visualization

> **[No Grammar to Rule Them All: A Survey of JSON-style DSLs for Visualization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07998)**
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> There has been substantial growth in the use of JSON-based grammars, as well
> as other standard data serialization languages, to create visualizations. Each
> of these grammars serves a purpose: some focus on particular computational
> tasks (such as...

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/2X/5/56aace499950afce927fa84b850e8537953261b4.jpeg "IEEE Vis 2022 - Transforming Tabular Data and Grammars") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMy2QCE-y7o)

> **[GitHub - mcnuttandrew/no-grammar-supplement: The supplementary material for...](https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/no-grammar-supplement)**
>
> The supplementary material for the paper "No Grammar to Rule Them All: A Survey of Json-Style DSLs for Visualization" - GitHub - mcnuttandrew/no-grammar-supplement: The supplementary mate...

In case you wonder the relevance I found it interesting that these languages seem to struggle with the same things that Racket tries to solve.

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