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This is acronym heavy. Author needs to specify in the opening which JWT he is talking about. Java Web Toolkit? or JSON web token? It took me a fair amount of reading to work out which one he means. And even them I'm only pretty sure he means JSON web token, but I can't be sure because the Java Web Toolkit also connects to servers, and uses encryption, and all the other stuff he talks about.

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People still use Java Web Toolkit?

Okay, dumb jokes aside, they're clearly talking about alternative ways to authenticate, so I wouldn't know how you could conclude this was about anything but JSON Web Tokens.

People still use Cobol, mate.

Just specify in the first sentence what you are talking about as full words. Is it that hard? Apparently it is.

>People still use Cobol, mate.

Which makes sense. It has been a historically succesful language that served well for decades.

JWT wasn't even good when it was new.

Usually people using the acronym daily process it as a single concept not even consciously thinking it's a compound term. Look at yourself: you used "Cobol" instead of "common business-oriented language" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

I had the same thought. I thought Java Web Toolkit, and then thought, yeah, I bet there are lot of things to use instead of it, and proceeded to think the article would explain that Java Web Toolkit was more commonly used than I expected.

Nope, JSON Web Token.

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