Right, this, and the lack of typing in XML, are the fundamental differences and the sources of many of the differences in performance, complexity, etc. The ques

Right, this, and the lack of typing in XML, are the fundamental differences and the sources of many of the differences in performance, complexity, etc. The question to ask is, what’s the right format for your software’s needs? More often than not, programmatic data structures map more directly to JSON/YAML’s simple and typed fundamentals. That easy mapping plus far better performance are the reasons why people avoid XML these days. The author of this piece gets it fundamentally wrong in saying that “Enterprise” stink was the reason people abandoned XML. For enterprises that need those features, XML is still a fine format to use. But for most purposes, those features aren’t necessary, and the massive overhead that comes along with them makes it a bad tradeoff.