It's not really because they don't want to have to learn it, it's because XML is fundamentally the wrong data model for most data. JSON is great because it matches the object structure used in 99% of programming languages - for JS it is the object structure.
Find me a programming language where objects have attributes, the order of members is significant and can be interleaved, everything is stringly typed etc...
It's a shame because I agree the tooling for XML is still better than JSON. But not better enough that it's worth fighting the data model mismatch.
Find me a programming language where objects have attributes, the order of members is significant and can be interleaved, everything is stringly typed etc...
It's a shame because I agree the tooling for XML is still better than JSON. But not better enough that it's worth fighting the data model mismatch.