Did this extensively in the mid-naughties. Huge site, lots of data and traffic.
Performance exceeded what was available at the time, scaled super well, but not something I’d ever go back to.
- xslt is not a programming language. As soon as you start using xslt:functions you’re doomed.
- it is not a fit for interactive UIs. It’s good for static content, trying to mix in js goes wrong very quickly.
My opinion is that these days infra is cheap enough that you get all the same benefits by doing standard templating in your language of choice from your data in json or whatever. Which I know is essentially the same thing without the specialist software and dsl. And that’s kind of the point.
Once you get to XSLT 2.0+, it is a programming language, just a very verbose one. I did a lot of XSLT/XQuery back in mid-00s, albeit not in web frontend context (we used it for code generation).
Unfortunately no browser has ever supported anything past XSLT 1.0.
Similar story for me. Conceptually I still like the idea, but not with XSL. JS operating on JSON as you say can do the same, but without all the needless pain. Though I'd still love a more declarative option - but I'll sacrifice that before I use XSL again.
Add to this that voice assistants fundamentally got worse and worse as their makers tried to monetise, increase usage etc. it took cool tech and made it annoying.
It’s opportunistic I think. Rev is up and as you say SAP is like tar to get out of.
IMO There’s a market expectation that “big tech must make cuts” and therefore they either feel their share price would be under pressure if they don’t show something, or more cynically they see an opportunity to trim a little that would look a lot less worse than if they did it another time.
I think your comments nails it. Both the reason you give play a role. I am very interested in the earnings reported today and the salary round this year also announced today.
Agree with you a lot. Especially about that style of management being attacked.
It’s easier to manage when all you do is assign work, reward with money and blame silent quiting, millennials, or whatever the latest cause of people “just not working enough”.
As opposed to actually caring about your staff, making sure the work is fulfilling and that the team are bought into what they are doing at an individual level.
Leading shouldn’t be about what makes it easier for the manager.
Vote with your feet and your wallets.
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