alt Hacker NewsIDK, 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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vjvjvjvjghv • yesterday at 6:15 PM
Exactly. Compared to microservices XML is a pretty minor problem.
xorcist • yesterday at 3:05 PM
Agreed. Also, Docker.
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...