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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Balisage Paper: Fat Markup: Trimming the Fat Markup Myth one calorie at a time

https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html

XML is a fine format in comparison to JSON.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate writing and reading xml compared to json, I don't really care if one is slightly leaner than the other. If your concern is the size or speed you should probably be rethinking how you serialize the data anyway (orotobuff/DB)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean we have a generation that thinks XML is bloated & JSON is superior but those two formats are about the same on performance & compressed size--which was the point. The non-plaintext-readable formats are superior along a lot of metrics but harder to debug & ultimately less common.