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Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

>We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine Hmm. Have you actually done much web development in the last 10 years? Building websites with raw HTML, CSS and JS 10 years ago was very much not "just fine". There's a reason frameworks were invented.

it absolutely was fine. it was easy and many children were able to do it with minimal experience. the reason frameworks were invented was because the web devs at big tech companies decided to use dumb and sluggish hacks to simulate features that websites never did and still don't need.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, one of the things I miss the most from AS is... E4X. I work with ton of json, including hundreds of kubernetes definitions per project, and I really miss the ability to parse the data so swiftly and effective with native syntax.

I've never used E4X, but it at least looks like it'd make XML more tolerable. Most XML experience I had was ejabberd and XMPP. Was thoroughly pissed off by the end of it. We ended up sending JSON over IQ messages instead because we were super done with XML, only to find that iOS's XML parser takes O(N^2) time to parse each element. Had to split the elements to make it work. 0/10 would not recommend.

I have been using an event XML parser to process XML on iOS (such as expat). You can processed the XML as a stream and it is very efficient.
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