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JSON won because it can be easily processed by a human being
by konart 5y ago
JSON won because it can be easily processed by a human being
- chopin 5y agoYou can't comment in JSON which I don't like (to put it mildly). Any real human readable format should support comments.
- konart 5y agovalid point.
- speed_spread 5y agoThat's just a matter of what you've been exposed to. While XML will always be a little more verbose than JSON, a well-designed XML document format can be much easier to read than a poorly defined JSON one. Plus, chances are that good XML also specifies a schema, which can be used by editors and tools to help you make sense of the content and rules governing it. JSON has a few schema mechanisms, but they're not integrated into the standard and thus much less supported by tooling.