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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by HelloNurse on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:56AM (#23448251)
XML as code can (and often does) work as intended.

It's much less annoying than "exciting" episodes and habits:

  - let's see if our SSL certificate has been actually updated on all servers in the cluster
  - let's find out what I need to restart after deploying my web app update
  - who knows what the classpath loading order will be this time; if it's broken you can try a restart
  - finish the test quickly before the sysadmin committee begins an application server upgrade and everything goes offline for as long as it takes, hopefully only a few hours
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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by pdimitar on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:21PM (#23451450)
Not sure how what you said fixes the points you enumerated? XML as code simply wraps other people's libraries in a different DSL and if they have bugs and/or operational complexity, no DSL on top of it will change that.
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