Post AAWt5iIGdJo8xtdfQu by rutherford@merveilles.town
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 (DIR) Post #AAWt5iIGdJo8xtdfQu by rutherford@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T20:58:34Z
       
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       The more I think about software, the more I come to realise pretty much every development I actively enjoy working with is pre-2000...
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWt5ikyuYmCOx4bBo by neauoire@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:17:49Z
       
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       @rutherford damn, I only picked up dev in 2010s .. What was different?
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWt5jBDL1lBiJLY4u by rutherford@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:24:31Z
       
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       @neauoire oh, I don’t so much mean the process of development (I also didn’t start until mid-2010s at least). But in terms of technologies/formats, things like XML, PDF, lots of font-related stuff like SFNT and PostScript are all 90s or earlier.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWt5jitJohNOl6RZQ by rutherford@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:26:21Z
       
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       @neauoire I can’t think of an equivalent format or language (maybe with the exception of Markdown) post-y2k that I don’t end up thinking of as basically a necessary annoyance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWt5kCJYQEas0rwQq by neauoire@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:28:24Z
       
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       @rutherford I rather like csv, is that a recent thing?
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWt5kh9hku8PfIZVI by welt@pl.spiderden.net
       2021-08-20T21:51:34.102102Z
       
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       @neauoire @rutherford JSON is also a massive one. I personally hate XML with a passion.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWtlUBPUDFtMeLlKK by rutherford@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:55:13Z
       
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       @welt @neauoire Huh, I’m interested to know why that is. I use it fairly often (constantly if you consider HTML to be XML) — wouldn’t consider it a favourite, but I never mind having to write/read it
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWtlUlZJmB9AnGdge by welt@pl.spiderden.net
       2021-08-20T21:59:08.077662Z
       
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       @rutherford @neauoire I find it very difficult to read and just to be too complex for its own good. 99.999999999999999 percent of the time JSON is perfectly fine and more readable. Writing a JSON parser is way easier than writing an XML parser if I ever need to. I'm sure there's probably some good use-cases for XML but it isn't worth it in basically every situation for me. I think even then we could do better.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWu3wC05PTLRlQO4e by rutherford@merveilles.town
       2021-08-20T21:57:07Z
       
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       @neauoire okay, well-formatted csv (2005), touché, I stand corrected.Badly-formatted csv I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy