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HTML and JS both have comments, I don't see the problem

• Someone1234 7mo ago
  And both are poor interchange formats. When things stay in their lane, there is no "problem." When you try to make an interchange format using a language with too many features, or comments that people abuse to add parsable information (e.g. "type information") then there is a BIG problem.
  • lolive 7mo ago
    « HTML is a poor interchange format. » - quote of the century -
    • thaumasiotes 7mo ago
      It caused all kinds of problems, though those tend to be more directly traceable to the "be liberal in what you accept" ethos than to the format per se.