[kitsunesoba]

Also this may just be the time in which I got into programming showing, but it seems like JSON encoding/decoding has been built into more languages than support for XML ever was. That's one less required dependency and thing to have to think about in many cases, like in Swift projects all I have to do is make sure my model structs/classes conform to Codable and I'm ready to hit endpoints.

[hajile]

That’s because writing a JSON parser is pretty straight forward with just a couple edge cases.

Writing a conformant XML parser is a HUGE undertaking comparison.

I could get most places to give me the time to write a JSON parser in whatever language of it didn’t have one. I couldn’t do that with XML.

Because of this, every common language (and most uncommon ones) has a JSON parser while XML parsers are less common (and fully conformant ones are even more rare).