Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework

Re:Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework by cm2187 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:28AM (#12065065)

For a non professional developer, it is almost entertaining to watch all the fads coming and going.

XML is fantastic, all data XML!

XML is horrendous. All data in JSON. I can't believed we were using this awful XML!

JSON is sooo lame. XML is the new JSON!

Same for languages, frameworks, programming patterns, etc...

Even more volatile than fashions.

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Re:Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework by andybak on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:17AM (#12065378)

While some people get a bit cargo cult about things there is a rough consensus that XML is good for some things and terrible for others whilst JSON is the exact reverse ;-)

I personally rather like YAML for anything intended for humans to read and edit.

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Re:Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework by MichaelGG on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:03PM (#12067906)

If XML didn't have those idiotic verbose closing tags, this probably wouldn't even be a discussion. Or if JSON had comments and didn't require quoting all keys.

What's funnier is seeing the HTTP/JSON folks re-invent SOAP. But maybe this time it'll actually be Simple.

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