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riffraff on Sept 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013...

XMLRPC[0] defined a trivial mapping of the same data structures (structs, arrays, scalars) in the '90s.

The real advantage of JSON was (IMHO) that it didn't let you do _anything else_.

[0] http://xmlrpc.com/spec.md

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