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Re:JSON with Commas and Comments by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:36PM (#26233863)
I think the move from XML to JSON mirrored a lot of the overall switch in the software industry at large from unnecessarily overly complicated "design-by-committee" specs to simple, get-shit-done practicality. (Heck, anyone remember the horror that was the original EJB spec, or god forbid, CORBA?) The rise in scripting languages like Python and JS on the backend is another example of this.
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Re:JSON with Commas and Comments by enw on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:56AM (#26234843)
And I see this obsession in some people in the industry trying to prematurely optimize every drop in their code, but they don't understand the added complexity results in inefficiency (mostly lost improvement potential) in the long-term.
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