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JSON "won" because people were sick of xml, it's turgid tooling, rampant xml-abuse (the horrid ws-* ecosystem), and they were annoyed with having to edit it by
by crispyambulance 5y ago
JSON "won" because people were sick of xml, it's turgid tooling, rampant xml-abuse (the horrid ws-* ecosystem), and they were annoyed with having to edit it by hand.
That said, xml could have worked out fine if there had been sane management of it's evolution. But now the cat's out of the bag, and we got json, and the "named-to-be-a-loser" YAML.
- dkarl 5y agoThis is pretty much it, JSON won because it wasn't trying to deliver on all the promises XML made. We could see that it wasn't going down that dark path. It wasn't going to attract a community drunk on visions of their markup language solving every problem that complex systems have. Maybe someday that kind of ambition will lead to something great, but we needed a step back.