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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by benbristow on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:04PM (#19656613)
I think JSON is just universally more easy to use. Every language I’ve used with it is mainly the same in the way it works. JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP...

But you’re not wrong. Yes you have to deserialise it. Hence it being an Object Notation system.

While you say JSON is trying to catch up with XML in regards to XPath, JSON is trying to catch up to XML with things like JSON Schema.

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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by pingec on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:26AM (#19658189)
> While you say JSON is trying to catch up with XML in regards to XPath, JSON is trying to catch up to XML with things like JSON Schema.

Absolutely. I would say XSD is the strongest advantage of XML over JSON right now. XSD still has many things to improve but JSON schema is even further behind.

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