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Amen, all of the actually-interesting features could have been done within the framework that MRC (RIP) laid down for IMAP, without going wholly into “screw lin
by eschaton 3y ago
Amen, all of the actually-interesting features could have been done within the framework that MRC (RIP) laid down for IMAP, without going wholly into “screw line oriented text protocols, gotta be Web
2.0!” bullshit.
- kazinator 3y agoJSON is not "modern". * curly braces are not modern. * quotes around strings are not modern, and neither are backslash escapes like \n * commas and colons to separate items are not modern; square brackets for arrays are not modern * JSON's printed floating-point format which looks like 123.56E+78 can be seen in computing-related documents from the late 1950's. * HTTPS isn't new, and sending formatted data over web transport as an API is soon going to be approaching thirty; remember SOAP from the 1990's? The SOAP was handled by so many hands it shrank down to JSON.