Comment by redbell | Hacker News Reader

Comment by redbell | Hacker News Reader

IMHO, Google had become the most powerful tech company out there! It has a strong monopoly in almost every aspect of our lives and it is becoming extremely difficult to completely decouple from it. My problem with this is that it now dictates and influences what can be done, what is allowed and what not, and, with its latest Android saga (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028), it's become worrying.

I strongly encourage building a website entitled, something like keepXSLTAlive.tld to advocate for XSLT as the other guys did https://keepandroidopen.org/ for Android (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488), or keep this current site (https://xslt.rip/) but update the UI a little bit to better reflect the protest vibe.

What you say about google might be true. And its changes to android might be bad…

But that does not mean xslt should be kept alive just because of that. It should be judged on its own merits

And thats part of the problem, they didn't judge it on its merits.

Google judged a 25 year old spec that is now 2 major versions out of date.

So why is almost nobody here actually defending it on its own merits? In my opinion XSLT was a bad idea ~20 years ago when I started in web development. It was convoluted, not nice to work with and the implementations buggy.

Most people seem to think it is bad because it is Google who want to remove it. Personally I just see Google finally doing something good.

There is so much defense of XSLT it’s crazy you assume no one is here defending it. This thread isn’t the single defense point against Google.

Not only that Google engineers Mason Freed has shown pretty forcefully that he will not listen to defense, reason or logic. This further evidenced by Google repeatedly trying to kill it for 25 years.

Personally I just see you licking Google’s boot.

There are plenty of defenders of XSLT around here. More importantly though, this thread isn't focused on debating the pros and cons the tech.

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