The difference being that JSON doesn't have the pretentiousness, mental, tooling and processing overhead, and the marketing-imposed-solution-of-a-non-problem XML was sold as...
Oh absolutely. XML and HTML are the epitome of trying to solve a problem that's not very hard, and not solving it very well.
S-expressions reinvented badly.
JSON does have the same problem at its core, but at least it's simple and the data structures it offers (dicts and lists) are semi-reasonable primitives.
S-expressions reinvented badly.
JSON does have the same problem at its core, but at least it's simple and the data structures it offers (dicts and lists) are semi-reasonable primitives.