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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by bawolff on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:12PM (#23199487)
Everyone making a bespoke api is not the same as someone making a better car. Key word is "better"

The issue is that a lot of people talk up "innovation" in the tech industry, that isn't. For every person who makes a better car, lots of people make the same or worse cars.

As a random example, which format would you rather have your api serialization format be in: ASN, XML or Json? I for one am glad that innovation made ASN and XML go away.

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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by sdenton4 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:31AM (#23200956)
> As a random example, which format would you rather have your api serialization format be in: ASN, XML or Json? I for one am glad that innovation made ASN and XML go away.

ha, obvs protobuffers. [hides from thrown tomatoes]

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