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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff (joeyehand.com)

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[–] moseschrute 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.

Something like this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There's very robust libraries for most every language that can parse rss for you easily.

[–] moseschrute 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

But a lot of languages have native support for parsing JSON without the need for a library. When it’s handled by the language, it’s more likely to be done to spec, doesn’t increase bundle size (if that matters to you), and will be considered as updates to the language are made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can speak to go, ruby, and PHP: Their libraries for support is per-spec.

Json is pretty great, and sure, if someone wants to make RSS2, using JSON, that'd be fine. But, RSS came long before JSON was even an idea, and XML was the only way we figured out.

RSS's format is, in fact, so old, there's been a huge amount of time refining those language's libs to support RSS just dandy. You never even need to look at the XML.

[–] moseschrute 1 points 2 hours ago

Idk maybe I'm wrong. I worked for a news outlet for a couple years and I just remember generating and parsing XML to be more work then generating a JSON feed.

It's not even just parsing. I just remember crawling the parsed JSON tree to not be as nice as navigating a JSON object.

[–] tb_ 2 points 13 hours ago

JSON!