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> XML could have remained popular and we would not have had jason One of the selling points of json is file size, xml started dying when people realized that m
by thinkloop 6y ago
> XML could have remained popular and we would not have had jason
One of the selling points of json is file size, xml started dying when people realized that more than half their bandwidth was going to xml structure rather than actual data
- reallydontask 6y agoThis is hardly an issue for server side config files or CI/CD config stuff.
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- Thiez 6y agoIs the difference in size really significant? When the files are small it doesn't matter much, and when they are large you can throw some compression in the mix. I've never heard filesize as an argument for json before.
- thinkloop 6y agoImagine a table of numbers, the xml would be 90% repeated header names and structure. Now multiply that by hundreds of little Ajax requests, it added up.