> I don’t know much about why the industry seems to have rejected XML as “bad”
Off-topic, but I think 2 issues dominated 1.) Unnecessary complexity in the standards: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple 2.) draconian error-checking. I assume the move to JSON was to get away from the strict error checking On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 5:02:23 PM UTC-5, Josh Tilles wrote: > > As I’m watching Michael Drogalis’s Clojure/Conj 2015 presentation “Onyx: > Distributed Computing for Clojure” > <https://youtube.com/watch?v=YlfA8hFs2HY&t=734>, I'm distracted by a > nagging worry that we —as a community— are somehow falling into the same > trap as the those advocating XML in the early 2000s. That said, it's a very > *vague* unease, because I don’t know much about why the industry seems to > have rejected XML as “bad”; by the time I started programming > professionally there was already a consensus that XML sucked, and that > libraries/frameworks that relied heavily on XML configuration files were to > be regarded with suspicion and/or distaste. > > So, am I incorrect in seeing a similarity between the “data > code” > mentality and the rise of XML? Or, assuming there is a legitimate > parallel, is it perhaps unnecessary to be alarmed? Does the tendency to use > edn instead of XML sidestep everything that went wrong in the 2000s? Or is > it the case that the widespread backlash against XML threw a baby out with > the bathwater, forgetting the advantages of data over code? > > Cheers, > Josh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
