[radicalbyte]

That was the cause of the XML problems - everything was generated.

Me? Schemas are a requirement in areas where you need to integrate over different technology / with different implementations. JSON Schema is in those contexts a bit of a kids toy compared to what XML can do.

[halostatue]

We’re using Prisma (https://prisma.io) schemas for a particular data exchange project we’re doing so that we can generate JSON schemas, SQLite schemas, PostgreSQL schemas, etc. We have even found a generator to create basic Elixir code from the Prisma schemas.

We’re not using anything else from Prisma, but if we had to implement something else in JS to talk to a database, that would be a contender for our database interface layer (there are only a couple of others that are even remotely usable, having suffered through the disaster of a Sequelize implementation). We’re more likely to use Elixir and Ecto.

[taeric]

Adding to the problems of generated schemas, Microsoft and Sun both had different views on how they should be generated. I bought into the promise of "build a wsdl" and you can get clients from .NET and Java. I lost all of that buy in. Hard.

I don't know that I can lay the blame on either one of them directly, mind. But the industry definitely suffered from the bad faith cooperation of those companies.

[radicalbyte]

Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, Oracle et al explicitly made WDSL and related technologies not interoperate... and that is where JSON + universe has been a delight.

[taeric]

Totally fair. Not sure why I limited my memory to just the two companies.

I'm not clear on how JSON as a format has helped interaction. I'm reminded of like efforts to standardize how information is stored on pages. By and large, that ship sailed and sites that have remained somewhat stable have driven how we look for information on them. All without having to add new schema languages or tools.

[hot_gril]

I can still read the generated JSON.