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AI's take on XML (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by renzev to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, the original reason was to avoid people making custom parsing directives using comments. Then people did shit like "foo": "[!-- number=5 --]" instead.

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[–] CodexArcanum 4 points 2 months ago

I've written Go code; they were right to fear.

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