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STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

It was a markup language until someone decided to parse and execute it as a programming language. This person should be watched for other deranged behavior.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I use XML as markup language, what kind of deranged person thought to turn it into a programming language? My problems with the Lua API led me down the rabbit hole of making my own VM and implementation, not looking at a markup languge, then go "what if I used this for scripting?".

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

When they make XML do these things (or the way Github Actions does it with YAML), they're essentially creating a representation of the AST that the compiler would make internally from a mini language. So there's a few possibilities:

  • They don't know how compilers work and reach for a tool they do know
  • They know, but figure the problem at hand doesn't need the complexity of a mini language and start the project the quick and dirty way, and it gets out of hand as they add features
  • They may or may not know, but they do get caught up in the hype of some other tool (likely what happened with XSLT)
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