Comment by TingPing
3 months ago
I get the frustration but I don’t believe that’s really accurate. It’s not widely used and modern developers don’t see it as valuable.
3 months ago
I get the frustration but I don’t believe that’s really accurate. It’s not widely used and modern developers don’t see it as valuable.
I’m a modern developer and I see it as valuable. Why side with the browser teams and ignoring user feedback?
If “modern developers” actually spent time with it, they’d find it valuable. Modern developers are idiots if their constant cry is “just write it in JS”.
No idea what’s inaccurate about this. A billion dollar company that has no problem pivoting otherwise, can’t fund open technology “because budgets” is simply a lie.
The dominant user feedback is the hard statistics on how rarely it's used.
You can't trim the space of "users" to just "people who already adopted the technology" in the context of the cost of browser support.
Yes excellent way to continue to diminish users of tech you don’t agree with.
“The people who actually use it are wrong and don’t matter!”
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“Everyone who uses the blink tag agrees it’s critical functionality.”
XSLT in the browser was left fundamentally underdeveloped, which is why it is not really widespread.
XSLT in non-browser contexts is absolutely valuable.
Agreed; as a technology, it's both clever and fun. I learned it right around the time I first touched functional programming in general and it was neat to see how you could build a chain of declarative rules to go from one document to another document.
Personally, I don't think we need a dedicated native-implemented browser engine for it. But in general I'm glad the tech exists.