Same with me. I like XML, the automated tooling it allows for and never got the point of the XML hate.
It was made for tools, not to be written by hand.
It was made for tools, not to be written by hand.
...but people too often end up needing to read or write it by hand. That's the problem with XML. (Well, the other problem is that there is lots of data for which you'd want tooling for which a text-based markup format isn't ideal in the first place.)
I think that the hate usually comes from the PDP-11 programming crowd, whose only tools are the CLI and an editor.
Yeah, like it has been with .NET development on platforms where Visual Studio doesn't exist (read: all of them except Windows).
"should be" is a very different creature from "is", and is also very different from "will be".
> the hate usually comes from the PDP-11 programming crowd, whose only tools are the CLI and an editor.
Also known as "the every other platform except Windows" crowd, which apparently is substantial enough that even the one outlier -- Microsoft -- finally is trying to move in line with the rest of the world by allowing Bash and Linux tools in Windows 10.
You can be dismissive all you want, but that doesn't change the reality that CLI+editors are modern development (see also: almost every new language's ecosystem pivoting on CLI tooling and editor plugins), not the past.
I am yet to see iDevices and Android developers being PDP-11 devs or guys doing development on our Fortune 500 customers, regardless of the customer OS.
But enough empty hot-air "name-dropping"; just cool your bluster, dude. You don't have to get all "look at me I'm better than you, I have all the best words, great words like 'Fortune 500'" just because you don't like CLIs.