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I honestly wonder if JSON is king. I used to think so until I started working in fintech. XML is unfortunately everywhere.
by devmor 1y ago
I honestly wonder if JSON is king. I used to think so until I started working in fintech. XML is unfortunately everywhere.
- hermitcrab 1y agoJSON isn't great for tabular data. And an awful lot of data is tabular.
- devmor 1y agoYeah, I don’t like parsing XML, but I’d rather do that than deal with the Lovecraftian API design that comes with complex JSON representations.
- hajile 1y agoJSON tabular data only adds a couple of brackets per line and at the start/end of the file vs CSV. In exchange for these bits (that basically disappear when compressed), you get a guaranteed standard formatting. Seems like a decent tradeoff to me.
- arcfour 1y agoJSON: because XML is too hard. Developers: hey, let's hack everything XML had back onto JSON except worse and non-standardized. Because it turns out you need those things sometimes!