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JSON is the biggest joke in recent computer engineering history! It was a revolt against the complexity of XML, but now it recreated most of its past enemy's on
by nikolay 9y ago
JSON is the biggest joke in recent computer engineering history! It was a revolt against the complexity of XML, but now it recreated most of its past enemy's ones - schema, path, etc. So many products use JSON for configuration today when it lacks a basic feature such as having comments!
- geezerjay 9y ago> It was a revolt against the complexity of XML, but You're confusing things. JSON is in fact much less complex than XML. Any CS freshman can write a complete JSON parser in a couple of days, which is entirely inconceivable with XML. What people do with JSON documents is an entirely different problem.
- nikolay 9y agoNo, you're confused and lack the ability to read between the lines. I'm talking about the ecosystem as a whole. XSL, XML Schema Definition, XPath, XQuery, and not XML, but complementary specifications and so are EJSON, JSON Pointer, JSON Path, JMESPath, jq query language, and a growing number of other members of the JSON ecosystem. So, yeah, JSON alone is simple, because it's limited, but not orders of magnitude simpler than XML - most noobs know XHTML/HTML, and their number is orders of magnitude larger than those who know what JSON is.