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Raise your hand if you miss hand-editing or reading XML.
by stouset 10y ago
Raise your hand if you miss hand-editing or reading XML.
- oconnore 10y agoRequiring that a markup language (that must be sent across the wire between multiple buggy parser implementations) be hand editable is a recipe for disaster, and will never be as flexible as building/modifying an appropriate AST in a scripting language. There's not even a good reason to read HTML anymore. You hit Ctrl+Shift+C in Firefox (or I think it's J in Chrome) and you view the actual machine-parsed DOM structure. The only reason human-editable/readable formats were ever necessary is a lack of appropriate dev tooling.
- kuon 10y agoI have to agree, I've been working with JSON for 10 years and nearly never touched JSON by hand.
- tootie 10y agoRaising hand. If your IDE understands XSD, it is far easier to do than JSON. Tab completion on all your fields and instant validation of values.