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Comment by 0x445442

9 hours ago

IDK, the XML hysteria is similar by comparison to the dynamic and functional languages hysterias. And it pales in comparison to the micro services, SPA and the current AI hysterias.

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homebrewer  6 hours ago

IMHO it's pretty comparable, the difference is only in the magnitude of insanity. After all, the industry did crap out these hardware XML accelerators that were supposed to improve performance of doing massive amounts of XML transformations — is it not the GPU/TPU craze of today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_appliance

E.g.

https://www.serverwatch.com/hardware/power-up-xml-data-proce...

  • bogeholm  3 hours ago

    From your first link

    > An XML appliance is a special-purpose network device used to secure, manage and mediate XML traffic.

    Holy moly

  • soulofmischief  5 hours ago

    At least arrays of numbers are naturally much closer to the hardware, we've definitely come a long way in that regard.