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0 pointsbetaby6mo ago0 comments

XML is used extensively everywhere. Multibillion companies depend on libxml2 which historically had multitude of vulnerabilities, see https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?package=libxml2

Most of the Internet ifra depends on libxml2, major vendors like Juniper and Cisco use it. To my knowledge Android use it as well,

Naturally, with the advancement of AI, one would expect XML would be first thing to rewrite, given that library is in the critical path literally everywhere.

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jsnell6mo ago

Clearly that's not the use you have for a new XML library. It's a use you're imagining somebody else would have for it. And because you're just imagining the use case, you've failed to think through what "good" would actually mean in that use case.

To replace libxml2 across these ecosystems you would need it to be API-, ABI, and probably bug-compatible with a decrepit old C library. That's not something anyone or anything can write from just the XML spec.

alehlopeh6mo ago

Your original point would have had a bigger impact if you hadn’t married it to an idiosyncratic affection for XML. Now you’re stuck defending the usefulness of that particular technology which is entirely unrelated to AI.

spyckie26mo ago

I mean listen to yourself…

Let’s take a critical piece of infrastructure where if it goes down, billions of things also break.

And have ai rewrite it.

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