[layoutIfNeeded]

I've read your article... Holy shit. They took a simple, sed-like tool and turned it into an abomination.

[the-dude]

It ain't done before it can receive e-mail.

[oefrha]

It can receive email. See my follow-up here with a working implementation:

https://github.com/clopen/xpath-receive-email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960548

[0df8dkdf]

Hahah, that just really got carried away. Ok, any idea if there is replacement? I found version 1 useful for scrapping web sites. Or should I just stick with 1.0 ?

[hyperpallium2]

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

[MaxBarraclough]

I was going to suggest Vim as a counterexample, but sure enough https://github.com/soywod/iris.vim

[tingol]

That's a community based plugin, Vim is still focused on text editing and not much else.

[marcosdumay]

Most of the functionality on the editors like vim and emacs comes from community based plugins. People would mostly not use them if there were no such expansions.

[barumi]

This baseless assertion is simply wrong. Plugins are nice to have, but the bulk of their use is to customize default installs.

[riku_iki]

Curious what is the problem with this? You can still use your small sed-like subset of language in your project?

[taway611]

>>> They took a simple, sed-like tool and turned it into an abomination.

> Curious what is the problem with this?

Product Managers.