How is it developers killed the use of XML for JSON, a format that has no ability to add comments? What developers decided this was a good idea? A format which half the lines in the editor have 1 character in them.
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JSON is easier to read and write IMO, but comments would certainly be nice.
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No way it’s so ugly. Imagine if an HTML page was written in JSON lol. Totally unreadable.
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Replying to @kellabyte @jamestharpe
That’s because both XML and HTML are markup languages and thus do a pretty great job when they’re used for markup. The mistake was trying to use XML for records with metadata, for which it is massive overkill

Jan 28, 2019 · 10:16 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @kellabyte @jamestharpe
If all you want to do is send some tagged data, JSON has about 5% of XML’s complexity and is a better choice most of the time.
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But you know all that, and I agree that it sucks that JSON does not have comments.
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