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I always wondered, why XML is not used by developers. I use it for my programs. The combination of attributes and data within nodes, to me, has been very useful

• bschwindHN 5y ago
  It's a slog to write, harder to parse, and you have to make more decisions (do I put this in the node's attribute, or as a child node?). Maven had pom.xml files for declaring dependencies. Very few developers enjoyed editing those, and you don't see many XML-based config files these days for a reason.
  • Bilal_io 5y ago
    I've seen devs that came from the XML era treat json the same way, and I hate it. Exanple: { "key": "the key", "Value": "the value" }