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.”

      • Tanoh@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        And no comments, unless you use a non-standard parser. But then you might as well use anorher format.

          • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            3 months ago

            Lol. That works, but its hacky.

            The meaning of a “comment” is an integrated language feauture to write something that is not parsed by that language. This is just regular JSON.

          • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            This only works if the software that consumes the JSON doesn’t validate it or ignores keys it doesn’t recognize (which is bad, IMHO).

          • tyler
            23·
            3 months ago

            Now do a second comment.

              • tyler
                1·
                3 months ago

                Now put a newline in your comment, to make it readable. Clearly you can see the problem here right? “comment2” isn’t a comment. It’s a key with a value. Numbering them doesn’t actually fix anything, in fact it makes it much much harder to maintain.