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There are a lot of good arguments against the XML ecosystem, but "I'm too lazy or dumb to understand it" is not one of them.

• com2kid 9mo ago
  It is called DevUx and it is certainly a thing. If the tooling sucks and the entire ecosystem is hard to understand, people won't adopt a technology. XML was forced down everyone's throat for a decade! The second something else came along literally everyone who could jumped ship.
  • rcbdev 9mo ago
    Interestingly, I've never heard the term 'DevUx' before. I suspect it's the same concept as Developer Experience, which I also find supremely important and historically underappreciated. Companies like JetBrains for example make a killing by being a company that really takes this aspect seriously. On the other hand I've had a fellow developer laugh at me when trying to explain how this is important, so I'm unsure this is as important to others as it is to me.
    • com2kid 9mo ago
      Yeah devux is just short for developer experience. The apple app store had an amazing initial devux, vs the blackberry app store which famously was a huge pain just to apply to and all the tooling was horrible.