I 100% am onboard. I think this article still undersells how vital a shift it is, whether you are using a programming-oriented representation JSON, or the web's

I 100% am onboard. I think this article still undersells how vital a shift it is, whether you are using a programming-oriented representation JSON, or the web's de-facto and de-jure representation of information HTML (un-discussed but key to me is RDFa and Microdata semantic-markup). This article is so good, draws a very clear picture, & yet it's still no-where enough in de-lineating just how key it is, how vital it is, that the actual web medium- HTML- be able to & be used for expressing information. It at least makes a solid go at trying to show how JSON is arbitrary, where-as HTML is definitive, declarative, expressive. Back in DHTML days we talked about "data islands", which could be either JSON or XML/XHTML/HTML, either embedded in the page, powering the JS & webapp. Allowing the data & page realm to remain separate is a huge mistake. It overlooks the reverence & respect we ought/need to have for the core source of truth, for the real medium, HTML. Programmers need to take a knee & respect the vital, core, discoverable, honest truth of the web: HTML >>> JS. JS is supposed to just be a tool. As a agnostic/near-aetheist, it still feels non-contradictory to me to say we have fallen away from god in our march towards JS-driven applciationization. We have served illegitemate interests.