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		krapp on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017) JSON won because the web and javascript, which supports JSON, won. It would have won regardless of how ugly or awkward it was for that reason alone.

iakh on July 23, 2020 [–]

Except that the x in ajax stands for xml

krapp on July 23, 2020 | [–]

JSON is already based on javascript's object model so it makes more sense to pass it around instead of a format not natively supported by the language that will be processing it.

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