Your comment just reinforces my point: neither Python or Ruby supported JSON since their inception. JSON has been launched around 2002. Python has incorporate

Your comment just reinforces my point: neither Python or Ruby supported JSON since their inception. JSON has been launched around 2002. Python has incorporated one of the many existing libraries in 2008 after a lengthy discussion, the last part of which is http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012583.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/0125... Ruby had no support JSON for years, it has been added, in its current form, to the stdlib only in 2007. XML has been supported by Python since 2000 (minidom + sax) and by Ruby since 2003 (REXML). The idea that JSON is used more than XML just because programming language supports it "natively" clashes with the evidence.