[MichaelGG]

There was nothing wrong with csproj, apart from the MSBuild verbosity baggage. JSON's a terrible format for anything like this due to lack of comments and visual noise. (The mandatory quotes all over the place makes it hard to read.)

But I can't imagine it is hard to convert between them. Most .csproj's are basically a list of references and a <Compile><Include>*.cs.

[cm2187]

For a non professional developer, it is almost entertaining to watch all the fads coming and going.

XML is fantastic, all data XML!

XML is horrendous. All data in JSON. I can't believed we were using this awful XML!

JSON is sooo lame. XML is the new JSON!

Same for languages, frameworks, programming patterns, etc...

Even more volatile than fashions.

[andybak]

While some people get a bit cargo cult about things there is a rough consensus that XML is good for some things and terrible for others whilst JSON is the exact reverse ;-)

I personally rather like YAML for anything intended for humans to read and edit.

[MichaelGG]

If XML didn't have those idiotic verbose closing tags, this probably wouldn't even be a discussion. Or if JSON had comments and didn't require quoting all keys.

What's funnier is seeing the HTTP/JSON folks re-invent SOAP. But maybe this time it'll actually be Simple.

[girvo]

> due to lack of comments

Visual Studio Code handles this by just allowing comments in JSON used for configuration, heh.

[MichaelGG]

In other words it handles this by not actually using JSON. Sorta proves the point.