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by hermitcrab 403 days ago
JSON isn't great for tabular data. And an awful lot of data is tabular.
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devmor 403 days ago
Yeah, I don’t like parsing XML, but I’d rather do that than deal with the Lovecraftian API design that comes with complex JSON representations.
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hajile 403 days ago
JSON tabular data only adds a couple of brackets per line and at the start/end of the file vs CSV. In exchange for these bits (that basically disappear when compressed), you get a guaranteed standard formatting. Seems like a decent tradeoff to me.
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