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Everyone knows the real reason why json won over xml is because the latter was too pointy and the former has much better affordances because it's curvier

4/4/26, 5:17 pm11 reposts100 likes

Holliday

@doompositive.com

4 Apr

JSON is bouba, xml Kiki. I guess we like our data round.

Aljo Painter

@aljopainter.bsky.social

4 Apr

What did JSON win other than the consolation prize?

Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat

@alexhanna.bsky.social

makes sense

devex should take into account the number of sharp edges

Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat

@alexhanna.bsky.social

4 Apr

Python won out because the lack of edges at all

Dan Hon

@danhon.com

4 Apr

Nothing in this thread so far is false

Luis Crespo

@crespo.at

5 Apr

There’s a part of truth in that joke.

J. Danielle Boo-let (aka JD)

@jdgoulet.eurosky.social

4 Apr

It is known. Also, json smells like cookies and xml smells like ammonia.

Erin Casali

@folletto.bsky.social

4 Apr

I honestly still wonder how we ended up with formats that require typing the closing tag in the first place… and not just that: one of these became one of the most used in the world.

Dan Hon

@danhon.com

4 Apr

Typing code is stupid.

Andy Polaine

@andypolaine.bsky.social

5 Apr

Definitely the Argonauts