Why XML instead of JSON?

[Devon_v]

Curly braces give me a warm, fuzzy feeling and are the reason I cannot deal with Python as a language.

[colblackwolf]

XML is like violence.

It may not be the best solution to a specific problem, but it is always a solution   

[Adamiks]

XML is like violence.

It may not be the best solution to a specific problem, but it is always a solution   

To much violence against XML's can end with errors in your ass, like in real life violence can end with a spear in your ass.

Ahh.... Rimworld.....

[Mystic]

Curly braces give me a warm, fuzzy feeling and are the reason I cannot deal with Python as a language.

I agree with this in the area of languages at least (if not necessarily in data exchange formats). Python's indenting approach is IMO really not good for developing any programs of substantial size. Too easy for things to go wrong, even for someone as militant about proper indentation (in any/all languages) as myself.

On the other hand, even though I developed exclusively in C/C++ for nearly two decades, I am really, really over the need for semicolons as statement terminators. I consider them needless, cluttered syntax at this point.

Thus you have two of the reasons why Swift is well on its way to becoming my preferred language.

[MrWiggles]

This question just boils down to, "Why aren't your preferences my preferences?"

[Vas]

This is something I made a while back when I was going to make a web version of EDB's Prepare Carefully mod.

I put it on pastebin instead of here; http://pastebin.com/J5u3ASvm