Yeah, I was surprised so many people were caring about XSLT. As a language it really isn't very good and I wasn't aware it was used in a meaningful fashion at all.
(Still, it always felt like a glimpse into an alternative, much less hackish processing model for the web, where you just have DOM trees and a pipeline of pure functions to transform them into different trees. I think that approach is still worth exploring and a lot of more recent tech, like React does it)
But I feel the backlash is more a symptom of how the web platform is ran in general.
(Still, it always felt like a glimpse into an alternative, much less hackish processing model for the web, where you just have DOM trees and a pipeline of pure functions to transform them into different trees. I think that approach is still worth exploring and a lot of more recent tech, like React does it)
But I feel the backlash is more a symptom of how the web platform is ran in general.