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So now I get to support more than one format, with corresponding increases in complexity... ..But only the JSON format will have any users, and I still have to

by hapless 13y ago

So now I get to support more than one format, with corresponding increases in complexity... ..But only the JSON format will have any users, and I still have to deal with anything I find objectionable about JSON.

strmpnk 13y ago
In most systems I've deployed multi-format support it was a matter of a few extra lines of code rather than a doubling of effort. Pretty much all JSON values have obvious (aka. automatic) equivalents in other formats. JSON is truly the lowest common denominator, which is its strength.