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@aeva As someone who's working with XML

@aeva JSON is sometimes unfortunately Just Some Old Nonsense

@aeva in the same way json stands for juxtaposed splendid object notation?

@aeva X Marks Location.
If you dig enough you find HTML.

@aeva And the lighter cousin, the Kool Document Language

@aeva Stands for extasy methylphenidate lsd, which are required to fully appreciate the beauty of angle brackets.

@aeva

I thought it was eXtreme Markup Language, because it was invented in the radical 90s by five gnarly dudes and one sick, kick-flippin chick.

@aeva aeva no

@aeva TIL. I thought the x stood for extreme.

@aeva but you do have to overemphasize the "excellent" and play some air guitar when you say it

@aeva beside Dutch I like HTML.😆

@aeva come on, what about the huge flexibility of CSV? You can put any kind of data in any format with it! If you ever want to read that data back, however, yeah, then XML is needed :-)

@aeva
oh no, I always thought it stood for "excellent, my love".
Now I understand why I was always given weird looks, when I told that to my love when something good happened!

@aeva xml is for people born in 60s/70s. if you're born in 80s/90s, it's yaml for you.

@aeva It really is! Its greatest downfall was that people wanted it to be a serialization format, didn't understand the difference, and made giant messes.

I still wish XHTML was a thing, because people still think that what counts as "valid HTML" is well defined but it absolutely isn't

@[email protected] I'm going to say it: if as an industry we'd done SOAP properly and built the tooling to support it in more languages, it would have been awesome. XSD is so much better than json schema for specifying a domain.

@aeva 🤣 😂 😐 oh you're serious