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Story: JSON vs XML
Episode 87

Story: JSON vs XML

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Adam Gordon Bell

April 3, 202349m 56s

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Show Notes

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software.

This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast