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  JSON is better than XML, but it really isn’t great. 
JSON doesn't even support comments, c'mon. I mean, it's handy for some things, but I don't know if I'd say "JSON is better than XML" in any universal sense. I still go by the old saw "use the right tool for the job at hand". In some cases maybe it's JSON. In others XML. In others S-Exprs encoded in EBCDIC or something. Whatever works...


Yup, imagine if HTML was JSON-like, not XML-like.




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