I'm curious, not talking down: would you be interested in sharing your age and/or years of experience coding, and if you're feeling very generous, the languages youve written code in for more than 2+ years?
I'm 37, 17 years full-time-ish, VB6, ObjC, Java, Dart.
I'm asking, I guess, because I feel like I've seen these concepts before in pre-iOS ObjC, and Java, and IIRC a good chunk of the late 90s and early 00s was obsessed with doing this stuff in XML.
I barely remember, in my hobbled, probably incorrect, perception the ideas are old enough to that I am a bit flummoxed at how to interlocute with the idea that they're novel breakthroughs.
I'm ashamed to admit I thought the page was parodying this concept from back then of anything + XML = awesome. Im admitting it to give a concrete sense of how my subconscious processed this as settled territory.
In order: 42 years old; 17 years (at least? starting to lose count!); PHP -> JavaScript -> Clojure/ClojureScript -> TypeScript.
Perhaps more pertinent to the topic, in my last job I implemented the bulk of an XForms implementation. Pertinent because XForms has a lot of conceptual overlap with what I’ve seen in XMLUI so far.
I think it’s worth clarifying my point above with that context: it isn’t the concept that I find novel, at all. It’s the sheer depth and breadth of declarative expressiveness that I see in the examples. Maybe the best way I can put it is that what seems novel to me is how much novelty it appears to enable, before breaking through the abstraction to give it more capabilities.
I'm 37, 17 years full-time-ish, VB6, ObjC, Java, Dart.
I'm asking, I guess, because I feel like I've seen these concepts before in pre-iOS ObjC, and Java, and IIRC a good chunk of the late 90s and early 00s was obsessed with doing this stuff in XML.
I barely remember, in my hobbled, probably incorrect, perception the ideas are old enough to that I am a bit flummoxed at how to interlocute with the idea that they're novel breakthroughs.
I'm ashamed to admit I thought the page was parodying this concept from back then of anything + XML = awesome. Im admitting it to give a concrete sense of how my subconscious processed this as settled territory.