• Square Singer@feddit.de
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    I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

    That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.

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        Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.

        For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.

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      Bro the project I'm on uses XSLT and the first time I saw it I legitimately thought I was having a stroke because I could not accept that anybody would be stupid and/or masochistic enough to actually want something like that.

      However, I've now made it my mission to master it because it makes me feel like a high-born wizard speaking of ancient secrets in a tower high above humanity

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        I totally know that feeling :)

        Well, in the 90s, XML was the future. Luckily, not a lot of this future remains.

        Just imagine what HTML would be like if JSON had been available back then.