A lot of people have really strong opinions towards syntax things like YAML vs JSON vs XML, HTML, even programming languages. I think at some point we assign wa

A lot of people have really strong opinions towards syntax things like YAML vs JSON vs XML, HTML, even programming languages. I think at some point we assign way too much importance to this kind of stuff. I recently read a piece by Joel Spolsky that resonated with me (even though my career is not nearly as long as his). > I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found Node, React, and other goodies, which are, don’t get me wrong, amazing? Really really great? But I also found that it took approximately the same amount of work to make a CRUD web app as it always has, and that there were some things (like handing a file upload, or centering) that were, shockingly, still just as randomly difficult as they were in VBScript twenty years ago. [0] It makes me wonder if we're really focusing on the right stuff. Maybe there's lower hanging fruit somewhere that's more valuable than focusing on fundamentally subjective things like syntax. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announcement/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ...