Timeline for Why is XSLT so rarely used on the web?
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| Jun 19, 2022 at 16:34 | comment | added | Chris Burbridge | I love it so much that I googled "is XSLT still used", in hopes that the answer was "yes"! I did some work in it a very long time ago now. (I later did work in a Perl sub-language called XSH which was extremely cool, btw. In a way, it was more.. "interactive"). Always a part of me that wishes I could still get some contract work doing that! — I think it's a little bit like calculus or something — once you get it, you can't un-get it but it's hard to get.. | |
| May 9, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | @user151496 To me XSLT is much like SQL - it keeps being powerful enough. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | Michael Kay | I did say it was a love-it-or-hate-it language. I can see which group you're in! | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | user151496 | well, that's why i'm telling an insight that there's a lot of students who are forced to use this combersome language for it's semantics value | |
| Oct 21, 2020 at 16:12 | comment | added | Michael Kay | In the absence of any information to the contrary, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that a language that is in the top 30 on StackOverflow is also likely to be in the top 30 on other metrics. | |
| Oct 21, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | user151496 | but this statement is as baseless as the assumption that the actual amount of real xslt developers is measured by amount of the stackoverflow questions regarding the language :S | |
| Oct 20, 2020 at 8:32 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Unless you have evidence, your conjectures are baseless. I know thousands of real XSLT developers, but I have no idea whether the true number is a hundred thousand or a million. Neither do you. While there are certainly plenty of questions on SO from people who are complete novices both in XSLT and in programming generally, there are also plenty of questions addressing problems that are way harder than any instructor would set in a training course. | |
| Oct 20, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | user151496 | i actually think that most of the metrics like the number of StackOverflow questions is mainly students forced to use it in order to pass a course | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 16:17 | history | answered | Michael Kay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |