2015-01-23 UTC
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tantek aaronpk, re: http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2015/01/22/1/why-not-json - I'd even say protocol buffers, and the follow-up to them (what were they called) are also an attempt at JSON replacement. And this lolworthy stackoverflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14028293/google-protocol-buffers-vs-json-vs-xml