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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Disagree. I prefer XML for config files where the efficiency of disk size doesn't matter at all. Layers of XML are much easier to read than layers of Json. Json is generally better where efficiency matters.

[–] Hexarei 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Aren't most XML parsers faster than JSON parsers anyway?