From XML evangelist to skeptic: A developer's 15-year journey with metadata and markup
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Sigfrid Lundberg reflects on his 15-year career working with XML in library metadata contexts, tracing his journey from an early XML evangelist to a more moderate practitioner. He acknowledges the XML hype cycle that peaked around 2004-2005, and explores why many developers have grown to dislike XML — citing verbosity, complexity, and the rise of simpler alternatives like JSON. The piece is a personal retrospective on technology adoption cycles and developer sentiment shifts.
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Hacker NewsFrom XML evangelist to skeptic: A developer's 15-year journey with metadata and markupsigfrid-lundberg.seKey quotes
· 3 pulledEarly on I evangelized about XML with the fervour of a taleban.
I suppose that I contributed to the four or five years of XML hype that started at the turn of the century and culminated 2004 - 2005.
Since then I've become more moderate, but still embrace XML
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