While XML was imperfect from overcomplication, JSON is imperfect by falling short of even basic database use, and somehow despite its alleged simplicity it manages to be unstandardized almost as badly as Markdown. JSON and YAML both fail to have comments that survive processing, something it's easy to regret since XML does have comments that appeared in the parsed objects.
A saner subset of XML, possibly run through some over-caffeinated developers to lighten its redundant syntactic feeling, would have given us something FAR better than JSON's failure and YAML's gratuitously hypercomplicated syntax.
A saner subset of XML, possibly run through some over-caffeinated developers to lighten its redundant syntactic feeling, would have given us something FAR better than JSON's failure and YAML's gratuitously hypercomplicated syntax.
Developers Are Stupid - developer.