The main alternative to XML is JSON. Like XML, JSON is language-independent and can be combined with C++, Java, Python and other languages. Unlike XML, JSON is simply a way to represent data ...

That exercise also led me to discover that most JSON developer tools aren't worth the download, and that I probably needed to know quite a bit more Python than I do if I wanted to get anywhere.

Clippy is back, but this time he’s your desktop AI buddy. You don’t need to send anything up to the cloud; the whole thing runs on your own machine. The setup’s built with Electron, so it works on ...