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Let's be honest, the real 1999 design would have been a custom binary format that happens to use the endian of the system it was developed on, and leaks bits an
by ACCount37 2mo ago
Let's be honest, the real 1999 design would have been a custom binary format that happens to use the endian of the system it was developed on, and leaks bits and pieces of unflushed memory buffers whenever it writes to disk.
- flohofwoe 2mo agoNo that would be an early 1990s file format ;) 1999 is exactly right for the start of the XML hype, everything had to be XML, it would single handedly solve the software crisis (after OOP failed to do that) because everything would be able to talk to everything!
- anygivnthursday 2mo agoIndeed, early 00s was still the SOAP XML era if I remember right, WSD, SOA, ...
- reddalo 2mo agoSOAP XML is so uselessly convoluted. The whole Italian e-invoicing system is based on SOAP XML, and it's atrocious. They approved the specs in 2013, so it was already dated when it came out.
- stuaxo 2mo agoJar
- falcor84 2mo agoWell, they weren't quite wrong - it is an order of magnitude easier to reverse engineer an xml-based format than a binary one, especially now with LLMs.