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Re:Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:03AM (#31151706)
No. Please, stop it.

XML is not a problem. Parsing it is not a problem. Reading it is not a problem, too. None of the problems ever faced by us in the development of XMPP software would have been solved if it was switched from XML to JSON, nor made even a slightly easier to solve.

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Re:Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe by wusspuss on Sunday May 08, 2022 @08:40PM (#31309350)
Literally half the OP article along with half the comments here explain how XML is a problem, how it is not equivalent to any other serialization format, etc. IMO the funniest example is stanza ids. That problem wouldn't exist even if they just used said XML in a remotely sane manner. But they really wanted to go all in on it. It's the XML mindset, the need to complicate things.
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