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I find a strange urge to defend as having value not covered by . Even though XML is a pain, and developers hate it. But still... anyone else?

@allan Why? I'm still trying for an explanation of why I'm not insane

@worldsendless others can and probably have said it better than me. Here is an example blog post that is congruent with my thoughts: blog.frankel.ch/defense-xml/

@worldsendless there isn't anything wrong with plain XML it just got a bad name from being used improperly by Java. You were supposed to write SGML by hand and it had tooling to make that suck less and then XML was a standard form of SGML that was only supposed to be edited by tooling. But we lost all the tooling and java bongos took over and forgot that part so it ended up with a machine format being edited by hand and it was like when assembly coderds were trying to write RISC: absolute friction.

Writing JSON by hand is also shit BTW; no comments and trailing comma management. But there's a cool JSON.parse that saves me from having to iterate a Dom! :blobcatgoogly:

@icedquinn Once again I am left thinking, "Wow... this pointy-eared Quinn knows stuff!"

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