I loathe json... don't see the point of it over XML or even flat files.
Of course i've only worked with it in POSH, which is a bit of a PITA, so i may be a bit biased 🙂
You mentioned what you don't like. What method for large data transfers do you prefer?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.