Ironically, that XML(ish)-in-code idea did survive in JavaScript, where embedding HTML in code with things like JSX is now pretty standard. But that's the rare

Ironically, that XML(ish)-in-code idea did survive in JavaScript, where embedding HTML in code with things like JSX is now pretty standard. But that's the rare case where a programming language is so deeply entwined with a markup language that it's natural to bring them together. XML proper is increasingly rare as a data format nowadays, so Scala's support for it feels like a strange relic of a bygone era.