Everything that everyone ever told me had to be implemented in an XML flavor, I have implemented in JSON without trouble. This includes iOS and Android views a

Everything that everyone ever told me had to be implemented in an XML flavor, I have implemented in JSON without trouble. This includes iOS and Android views and manifests, HTML (I choose jade/pug/haml), JSX (pug/hyperscript), AJAX (always gets parsed into native JS object). It's never been a problem for my career, and if enforced with strict formatting and whitespace, causes less errors due to closing tag, encoding, or nesting issues. Plus, JSON is really close to YAML/coffeescript/Ruby/python/pug so I can write even less keystrokes and compile to JSON. I'd be really interested to see your interface implemented without the braces and brackets. I bet that would make it extremely approachable to non-programmers.