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I'm not sure that pom.xml is a good use of XML... but at the end of the day, maybe groovy isn't either! IMHO the biggest mistake is thinking that any *one* syntax will solve for every use case. Markdown is great for simple documents, but pretty horrible for complex documents. JSON is great for ad-hoc interchange, not so great for RPC or documents. XML is pretty good as a document archival/interchange format, not so great for RPC/data interchange (unless it's text heavy). S-expressions are nice for exchanging little expressions (vs JSON AST serializations/query languages), etc. etc. The one thing I do see a lot of is trying to jam a round peg into square hole, or a square peg into a round hole based on dogma: there are some really monstrous JSON uses out there (and I've been guilty of a few). The sad fact is that a lot of technology adoption is driven by popularity contests, not informed decisions. One thing I find amusing is that some modern browser frameworks are kind of reinventing generic markup, and in a very convoluted way. That's why I do wonder about XML in the browser... maybe a subset as Rick suggests, maybe not, but there are a lot of use-cases that could still be met (and yes, I am familiar with XAML, XUL et al). On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, at 3:42 AM, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
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