This is another reason why I'm developing an ad-hoc data representation with strong typing. JSON was almost right, but failed because there are too many fundamental data types that cannot be represented in a portable way.
A general purpose ad-hoc data format with all the fundamental types, that doesn't require endless text parsing but can be converted to a 1:1 text format for human viewing, would be helpful in so many situations, including serialization for piping between unix tools.
If JSON was almost right, why not EDN? https://github.com/edn-format/edn