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Yes, I program in HTML (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

XSLT is fine

If you have a program generate it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.

For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't even imagine. I've got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there another way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, there is: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

I am just not sure if that's much better. Maven is just a huge pain in the rear.