I dislike JSON, but it's a step in the right direction from XML. XML is an inelegant, verbose, over-specified mess, a relic of 90s thinking. JSON is definitely an improvement.
HTPP's fine, I guess. It's certainly available everywhere, and saves one from writing a bunch of tiresome parsing code. But that's really an indictment of the current state of our technology. Popular languages should make it easy to read structured data out of a socket (with some sort of max length to prevent DDoSes) & write structured data to a socket. Since they don't, HTTP is an okay compromise. It's a bit heavyweight, but it gets the job done.
HTPP's fine, I guess. It's certainly available everywhere, and saves one from writing a bunch of tiresome parsing code. But that's really an indictment of the current state of our technology. Popular languages should make it easy to read structured data out of a socket (with some sort of max length to prevent DDoSes) & write structured data to a socket. Since they don't, HTTP is an okay compromise. It's a bit heavyweight, but it gets the job done.