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This is really really cool, but... incoming rant So much of the Javascript tooling is reinvention of XML technologies - XML Schemas and XForms have been around
by legostormtroopr 4y ago
This is really really cool, but... incoming rant
So much of the Javascript tooling is reinvention of XML technologies - XML Schemas and XForms have been around for decades, and were standardised long ago. XForms supported data bindings, data schemas, conditional rendering and more - and this is a poor facsimile of all of that.
For some reason, web development schismed and decided that XML was "old" and Javascript and JSON were the way forward. But in their wake through so much knowledge and technology under the bus.
- techdragon 4y agoI've kept on top of the current state of XForms for years now because they are the pinnacle of "DRY" for "CRUD" however they aren't ubiquitous due to the ecosystem around them having significant tradeoffs if you aren't already invested in certain technologies. Every now and then XForms looks like it will fit, but then it fails at a later design review. This is mainly due to a lack of options when it comes to the backends to process them. Like many XML family technologies its a deeply corporate world with a lot of lock in.