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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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
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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.

Jan 28, 2019 · 10:18 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @kellabyte @jamestharpe
But you know all that, and I agree that it sucks that JSON does not have comments.
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Replying to @stilkov @kellabyte @jamestharpe
I guess that by saying that you are telling us that you haven't worked out that XML only has to be well formed to be used to send data. It doesn't have to a schema or any other "complexity".