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The problem is, programmers can't dictate what JSON should look like in the wild. We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered.
by est 2y ago
The problem is, programmers can't dictate what JSON should look like in the wild.
We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered.
- a57721 2y ago> The problem is, programmers can't dictate what JSON should look like in the wild. Not JSONs in general, but a sane API would never return something like that. > We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered. Nowadays there is OpenAPI, GraphQL, protobuf, etc. and people do bother about such things.
- mook 2y agoUnfortunately, a lot of the time you need to deal with other people's APIs.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered. Yeah, because it was ugly as hell and not human-readable.