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Yet another "brilliant" scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

XML is great if the (de-)serialization is already implemented. Otherwise traversing the document is a massive pain.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

True. Something like XPath can really help & there are use cases where that is more concise but requires loading XPath into your head like Regex (which tends to get unloaded). The extensibility shines tho as seen by XMPP continuing to this day with very good backwards compatibility with 2 decades of updates since everything in an extension to the base.