Those dumb decisions with XML still cause pain for many poor legacy code maintainers years later. Same thing will happen with this trend of trying to shoehorn blockchain into everything.
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There's a few things that get annoying amounts of hype these days. Blockchain is one of them. It makes me think of how XML was hyped in the early 2000s (it was!) and used to do everything it was totally not meant to do (like... turning tags into a programming language).https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1095310218995605504 …
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I still have fond memories of http://www.xmlvm.org/overview/
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OMG how have I never seen this?? This is gold! "In XMLVM, byte code-based programs are represented as XML documents. This allows manipulation and translation of XMLVM-based programs using advanced XML technologies such as XSLT, XQuery, and XPath."
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I once wrote a web store for a client, around 2004 or 2005, with all of the html templating based on XSLT. I'm not sure what exactly I was doing wrong, but it turned out to be slow as fuck, and I was out of time to do more work to figure out what it was. Poor client :D
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That sounds hilariously painful
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Yep, it’s a niche case. Do you need a decentralized ad hoc solution that is trustworthy that doesn’t care about the overhead to get the job done? Blockchain is a great solution. It’s just another tool in the toolbox. I’d like to see a blockchain with mining as K8s compute though.
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Coldfusion...never met any programmer that programmed it.
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Oh yes there was that. And then there's Ant- lots of people still use that and do funky stuff with it. But I've seen several cases of ad hoc languages made custom in-house or as part of a product, and have had to work with them a lot. Ugh Lee!
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