> dbus is xml-based. No, it's not: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html > "XML" i

> dbus is xml-based. No, it's not: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html > "XML" isn't inherently bad. Yes, it is (well, as a data format; as a markup language it's ugly but serviceable). XML is incredibly verbose, arcanely complex and a colossal time-sink of man-hours which could have been spent on pretty much anything else in computing. It's the JavaScript of data formats (which is amusing, since JavaScript's data format JSON is actually not half bad).