Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions

Re:Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions by m0v_eax on Thursday September 03, 2015 @04:55PM (#10167485)

He is way off about XML.. It is bloated and tedious to work with. For most scenarios, there are immensely better alternatives.

For the record, I was heavily involved with XML years ago and helped create a popular light weight xml-based cms.

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Re:Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions by adevine on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:26PM (#10167619)

I think he's saying his main point, though, is that storing objects in a RDBMS using OR-mapping is a pain in the ass and there will be better ways to do it. With the advent of NoSql DBs, and the number of DBs that store their data in JSON, I think this is largely correct. Back in 2004, XML was largely shorthand for "serialized object". He was wrong about the serialization format, but right about the overall idea.

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Re:Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions by panzagl on Thursday September 03, 2015 @06:35PM (#10167903)

People who hate XML never had to deal with variable-length bit field formats...

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