I wasn't speaking specifically about XML. If anything, XML is a poor metaphor for the 2010s hype cycle, as it was a much broader early vision to unify storage a

I wasn't speaking specifically about XML. If anything, XML is a poor metaphor for the 2010s hype cycle, as it was a much broader early vision to unify storage and web services than what existed at the time, and garnered a lot of industry backing as a potential standard. The fact that we ended up with JSON as a standard really seems like an historical anomaly. But who cares, I used to deal with SOAP, and AMF (which passed actual types, sometimes)... I'm just happy there's a standard, even if it sort of sucks. XML was bound to be a bad standard because it was too eXtensible, but those were the early days of the web. On the other hand, JSX is a fucking abomination on its face. All it does is flip the ugly paradigm of writing inline javascript calls inside your HTML, so now you write your HTML inside JS. It will die in a few years, and so will React just like Angular, because tightly coupling logic to display is nifty but it always exponentially increases technical debt.