You are right, of course, but it's far easier for the human eye to debug JSON than it is a myriad of binary protocols. Bandwidth is fast and relatively cheap.
I come from an embedded background though so it still makes me twitch.
Finger pointing should really go at Web frameworks though. An utter waste of bandwidth to usually display very little.
JamesB
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2024-07-09 17:55:25 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tnlu
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