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And 99% of the time the JSON serialize/deserialize library is much simpler and straightforward than the XML one, especially if your language has native hashes a
by __david__ 11y ago
And 99% of the time the JSON serialize/deserialize library is much simpler and straightforward than the XML one, especially if your language has native hashes and arrays.
There's also a bitter taste in many of our mouths left by the "XML All The Things!" crowd that brought us such monstrosities as Maven config files and XLST.
- cm2187 11y agoXLST is useful when you want to change an Xml configuration file based on whether you are in debug or release mode, without having to duplicate the whole thing. But I wouldn't hold it against Xml, you only use it if you find it useful.
- __david__ 11y agoXLST the language is great. I love the idea, it's wonderful and powerful in practice. XLST the syntax is an abomination. Trying to shoehorn a language syntax into XML was a stupid, stupid idea.