3 ms·
I doubt it ever will. The reason why I use JSON is because it's a very simple data format; when I need more expressive and structured data interchange I always
by Ixiaus 15y ago
I doubt it ever will. The reason why I use JSON is because it's a very simple data format; when I need more expressive and structured data interchange I always fallback on XML+XSD+XSLT - something JSON will probably never catch up with (because that already exists and why make JSON needlessly complex in order to handle what that kind of stack does?).
I think web developers get caught up in bashing XML a lot for no good reason - just because it isn't directly applicable to a simple RESTful API doesn't mean it isn't incredibly useful, it's meant for machines anyway!
- true_religion 15y agoXMLs great promise was that it was human readable. Lo and behold, it is more readable by non-bit-addled humans than whatever binary format is used in COBRA RPC. But no, XML wasn't meant for machines... its just that people today programatically generate and consume XML far more often than they do it by hand.