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I hear people say that Go is often hard to search online (hence sometimes "Golang"), but the vast majority of language names are common words. Names with punctuation (C++, C#) are hard too. Is this a big problem in practice? "Perl" isn't a dictionary word, but it's an exception.

I think JSON vs XML is a strange dichotomy. Both can be processed by machines, but they're very different. I've seen XML work really well for dictionary data. You want to mark up text: A dog is a domesticated <group>animal</group>. In other words JSON : CSV :: XML : HTML.

A critique of XML usage, and annotating documents rather than exchanging data: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml It's rare to see discussions of good XML usage! I've seen marked-up word definitions (a multilingual dictionary) that were a nice fit for XML, but it's rare.