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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by Animats on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:20PM (#17501754)
JSON tools tend not to scale. See [1] A 1MB JSON file will blow up some tools. Engineering models of real-world objects are much larger than that. There's sort of an assumption with JSON that you'll read it into a JSON tree and work on that, not process it sequentially.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12063626

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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by wpietri on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:46PM (#17512035)
I'm willing to believe that's currently true, but that doesn't strike me as much of a moat for XML.
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