To solve the XML issues you described we got schemas and syntax highlighting. I hate non-prettified JSON but its easy to prettify in any editor. So its a meh a

To solve the XML issues you described we got schemas and syntax highlighting. I hate non-prettified JSON but its easy to prettify in any editor. So its a meh argument against JSON. But to solve the crap with the comma one needs a variant of JSON, and there's various of these... One other neat feature of CSV is it can be imported in a very popular and powerful IDE, called... Excel.