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> That's just the format du jour. Ten years ago it would have been "store an XML encoded representation" and ten years before that it would have been some delim
by orf 10y ago
> That's just the format du jour. Ten years ago it would have been "store an XML encoded representation" and ten years before that it would have been some delimited representation.
That's called progress. We can't store it in some future language, who wants to store it as XML, so let's use the best of what we have.
- collyw 10y agoJSON is receiving pretty much the same hype that XML did 15 years ago. I never got really understood the hype about it then and I don't get it with JSON now. I find XML better for some things and JSON better for others. Neither is perfect.