▲ | yencabulator 6 hours ago | |
The "other parsers" in stdlib are gob and encoding/xml. Gob is a format made for Go, so it does not have a field naming convention mismatch; what's on wire is the Go convention. encoding/xml isn't really structured as a "convert between equivalent-shaped structs and a message" utility, its struct tags are more like a query language, like a simpler cousin of XPath. Most real-world code using it does things like
Where as with JSON there was a clear desire to have
parse with as little noise as possible:
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▲ | woodruffw 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Again, I understand the rationale. I just don’t think it was a good idea. |