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You seem to have only one use case which appears to be serialization, that isn't nearly the world of what xml covers. Yeah I guess if you don't want to use a database for your blog application json serialization is fine.

A lot of us need much more from our data than that. We need validation, we need a machine readable description format, and we need apis to leverage all this that doesn't change every day.

The json community is constantly reinventing the latter. Who cares if it saves a few bytes in transmission, I don't know anyone who grumbles "oh great, the xml is making my internet slow today."



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