I think part of what he's getting at is that if things embrace simplicity in their design, suddenly fact that "every programming language has a json parser" bec

I think part of what he's getting at is that if things embrace simplicity in their design, suddenly fact that "every programming language has a json parser" becomes less compelling, because it's easy to write this stuff yourself. Perhaps he goes a little bit far, but I'd agree that shoehorning your data serialization problems into a ubiquitous format can be a real headache.