Maybe this is a little unrelated, but why did our industry collectively pound our fists against the table and scream until XML went away? It's a little ugly and very verbose, but it's highly expressive and it has a proper schema language.
I'm too young to know what happened or why. By the time I got my first engineering job, JSON was the standard choice for "stuff you need to serialize."
I feel like YAML has also become the default choice in several areas where XML would be flat-out better.
I'm too young to know what happened or why. By the time I got my first engineering job, JSON was the standard choice for "stuff you need to serialize."
I feel like YAML has also become the default choice in several areas where XML would be flat-out better.