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JSON is probably the easiest format to work with regardless of language.
by happymellon 14d ago
JSON is probably the easiest format to work with regardless of language.
- bluGill 14d agoMostly because it is so common (web) it doesn't matter what language you use there is a good maintained tool to read and write JSON.
- gwbas1c 14d agoPedantic response: In C#, I find "binary serialization" much easier to program with than JSON. Then again, the resulting blobs require specialized tooling to read, and they're very hard to work with in other programming languages. --- But, jokes aside: I find CSV is great for "rows" because it doesn't repeat field names for every object. I really like XML when each tag is an object, and fields are attributes. Most people don't understand this and end up making a hug mess; and some serializers do this by default too. IMO, this is why JSON became much more popular.