Agreement seems to be AtomPub hasn't caught on because of XML. So why is there no standardized JSON variant?
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@stilkov because it didn’t deliver any benefit in the XML world, and JSON is about keeping complexity low?
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Replying to @assaf
@assaf I don't agree thousands of specific APIs are less complex

Oct 22, 2013 · 3:53 PM UTC

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@stilkov google ran this big experiment with odata, you can compare old & new APIs across the board. New ones much easier to use.
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@stilkov envelopes take a simple problem: find the data element (eg result.rows) and add an abstraction: now you need dependency + API
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@stilkov in XML days you always needed some abstraction + 3rd party dependencies, but JSON is straightforward data manipulation
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@stilkov and I argue “specific APIs” is false dichotomy; valuable APIs are specific, AtomPub doesn’t standardize the content (= value prop)