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		vbezhenar on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That people produce HTML with string templates is ... Scala had XML syntax. I always wonder why it didn't take off and was eventually deprecated while JSX was praised.

dtech on May 26, 2023 | [–]

Wrong moment in time, XML was already in decline when Scala was gaining traction and is very little used nowadays for new development.

vbezhenar on May 26, 2023 | | [–]

XHTML still is a thing.

zokier on May 26, 2023 | [–]

Because it was scala and not JS?

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