Comment by fc417fc802
3 hours ago
It's not the hot new thing but when has hype ever mattered for getting shit done? I don't think anyone who considers it obsolete has an informed opinion on the matter.
Typically a more primitive (sorry, minimal) format such as JSON is sufficient in which case there's no excuse to overcomplicate things. But sometimes JSON isn't sufficient and people start inventing half baked solutions such as JSON-LD for what is already a solved problem with a mature tech stack.
XSLT remains an elegant and underused solution. Guile even includes built in XML facilities named SXML.
>It's not the hot new thing but when has hype ever mattered for getting shit done?
People who wanted to "get shit done" had much better alternatives. XML grew out of hype, corporate management forcing it, and bundling to all kinds of third party products and formats just so they can tick the "have this hot new format support" box.
XML is perfectly fine. What are these alternatives?
YAML is just bad. JSON is harder to read for deeply nested structures. TOML and the like don't have enough features.
Maybe ASN.1? Although that has an official XML encoding so maybe not.
It makes me wonder how well an LLM like Opus can generate XSLT which was always the hard part when writing by hand.
Given that the SXML DSL has existed since the early 2000s have ergonomics really been a limiting factor? Of course having LLMs write things for you is also useful.