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hot take i will absolutely not stand by in a few hours

xml is actually great, both to read and write, by humans and machines (at least as a subset of xml).

i kinda miss having xml everywhere

json awful to write and unreadable without indentation (counting the ]} )
yaml is far too complicated and intuitive for what it achieves
toml is nearly that but it's too flat, it's just not the same

@CobaltVelvet ok, I see your take and counter by mentioning SOAP

Mark Shane Hayden @msh

@szbalint @CobaltVelvet ironically SOAP has to be among the dirtiest (mis)applications of XML out there.