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by duaneb 5053 days ago
Honestly, JSON isn't really much of an improvement over a technology that's been around since 1958, i.e. s-expressions. JSON is just the flavor of the month - I know people who dislike it because it loses some of the power of XML (XSLT, attributes, etc.)

In the end, I think it's just subjective. All of the above formats are equally capable of representing the same data.