XML continues to be a poor and inappropriate choice for simple stand-alone things. In APIs you're talking to 1 server, calling 1 function, that returns 1 kind

XML continues to be a poor and inappropriate choice for simple stand-alone things. In APIs you're talking to 1 server, calling 1 function, that returns 1 kind of thing at 1ce. XML starts becoming useful when you increment those numbers - any of them. People (including me) have been trained not to think in those ways. The web still isn't a web - it's merely a collection of computers with individual relationships. The 90s internet had fleeting attempts at other paradigms. We should probably put serious effort into a second bite at that apple since by every measure our technology is at least 1000x better in the same way we've revisited neural networks