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		eknkc on Aug 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) Apple's plist format might be the weirdest abuse of XML as far as I can tell. The SOAP envelopes and shit like that were horrible but plist is plain weird. Everyone abused XML some way or another. JSON is not that "abusable" I'd say.

amaccuish on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

PLIST is pretty flexible though, the underlying storage can be XML, binary or even JSON now.

cellularmitosis on Aug 18, 2019 | [–]

Implementing a binary plist encoding on you REST endpoints is actually pretty great for iOS devices.

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