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JSON won because it’s what JavaScript in browsers understands natively. That’s also the reason why JSON even exists in the first place.
by layer8 1y ago
JSON won because it’s what JavaScript in browsers understands natively. That’s also the reason why JSON even exists in the first place.
- prerok 1y agoAnd who decided that? Why not XML? That's backwards reasoning. XML was too complicated, so they decided on a simpler JSON.
- Groxx 1y agoXML has been supported in javascript for essentially just as long as JSON, arguably longer. Heck, the first in-practice and standardized HTTP request APIs for javascript were "XMLHTTPRequest" (and similar "XMLHTTP" names). And XHTML is a thing, and it predates both JSON and AJAX.