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The lost art of XML — mmagueta (marcosmagueta.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. "Oh, XML," they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. "We use JSON now. Much cleaner."

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[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yaml is dogshit format. If you need tree-like structure use json if you need list of props use toml or simple key value pairs. I fucking hate app properties in yaml.

can’t search shit
copy-paste doesn’t “just work” when you want to merge two files
your editor doesn’t show whitespaces and you messed up somewhere - valid but incorrect
messed up formatting your list of banned IPs/hosts/ports/users/subnets/commands - get pwned

It should’ve never left the basement of crackhead who thought “let’s make schema-less format depend on number of invisible characters”.

I’ll rather save my data in Copybook and record it on tape then use this Python-bastardized abomination

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh nice! I didn'tknow toml, so I looked it up a bit. Atfirst I was like "this is just .properties with a better typing support". Than I saw the tables and the inline tables, which is a really neat way for complex nesting. It reminds me of json, but better. I'll see if I can start using this somewhere.

[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Meanwhile, XML crying in the corner.... 😄