I think part of what he&#x27;s getting at is that if things embrace simplicity in their design, suddenly fact that &quot;every programming language has a json parser&quot; becomes less compelling, because it&#x27;s easy to write this stuff yourself.<p>Perhaps he goes a little bit far, but I&#x27;d agree that shoehorning your data serialization problems into a ubiquitous format can be a real headache.