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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.