The IT sphere and programming develop very quickly. Every year brings something new—a new approach, a new library, a new architecture solution, or just a new programming language. Popularity of something grows very quickly and can just change to hype. But today is not about this. I want to notice how technology dies in the example of the XML approach for building UI for Android.
No, no, XML is not die yet, but it has a tendency to. Just several years ago, when I started, it was a base of the Android system, that started from version 1. And, I thought of it as something unchangeable. Compose went to the scene, and the World changed and time of XML is gone.
Day by day, I get new notices about it. For example, new developers start learning Android development with a focus on Compose. One speaker at the conference mentioned XML as legacy code. Or just today, Google started to hide tutorials where present XML.
I think, it is a normal process. XML is quite familiar to me, and I sense a loss of something significant.. Maybe, I just getting older.
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