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XML: The greatest productivity destroyer of the 20th century.
by gusfoo 4y ago
XML: The greatest productivity destroyer of the 20th century.
- pjmlp 4y agoOnly when developers insist in using stuff like vi to write it by hand.
- jkmcf 4y agoI always expected the great boon of XML to be a proliferation of tools leveraging XSD to provide GUIs for managing the XML files. XML seemed like a great way to manage config files, but even auto-complete wasn't enough IMO. I'm thinking specifically about Apache Jakarta config files. Not sure if any ever existed. Of course, I'm unsure if XSDs were much used outside of big Java shops.
- pjmlp 4y agoThey did exist, on the domains where development tools actually get paid for.