I'd settle for consistent, predictable, and cheap. Generic doesn't matter if it solves my specific problem and ubiquity is a social problem. Enterprise pays a l

I'd settle for consistent, predictable, and cheap. Generic doesn't matter if it solves my specific problem and ubiquity is a social problem. Enterprise pays a lot for bespoke solutions as well. A very good reason to write your own software is if the problem is novel enough to warrant it. I'm not advocating that there should be n+1 JSON serialization libraries.