>It's not the hot new thing but when has hype ever mattered for getting shit done?
replyPeople who wanted to "get shit done" had much better alternatives. XML grew out of hype, corporate management forcing it, and bundling to all kinds of third party products and formats just so they can tick the "have this hot new format support" box.
XML is perfectly fine. What are these alternatives?
replyYAML is just bad. JSON is harder to read for deeply nested structures. TOML and the like don't have enough features.
Maybe ASN.1? Although that has an official XML encoding so maybe not.
replyIt makes me wonder how well an LLM like Opus can generate XSLT which was always the hard part when writing by hand.
replyGiven that the SXML DSL has existed since the early 2000s have ergonomics really been a limiting factor? Of course having LLMs write things for you is also useful.
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