2023-03-26 UTC
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[tantek] [snarfed] the challenge is that so many proprietary JSON APIs (and even other specs like AP) seem "easier" because of the "direct" string access on many properties, so developers have this expectation that it should always be that "easy" but that's because they forget that proprietary APIs change & expand in very awkward & ugly ways that would NOT work well for a standard protocol or format