[ping_pong]

XPath and XML in general is a great example of "Death by Committee". They tried too hard to be too smart and try to solve everything, and overcomplicated it to death. This is why people largely abandoned it. This is what is happening to C++ and they are steering themselves by committee into a dead end.

[waynesonfire]

I'm starting to pay more attention to technologies that are resistant to this. Maybe I'm just getting old that I'm beginning to value mature, proven technologies over fads. More importantly, is the difficult skill of being able to spot them.

[tonyedgecombe]

The troule is they are as rare as hens teeth. The temptation to add a little more is overwhelming. I know I suffer from it myself.

[lenkite]

Yeah the committee's decision to avoid ABI breakage is a serious deathblow against the language. Especially when a formal ABI was never defined in the first place. So, C++ is stuck with poor implementations for std::regex and std::unordered_map for ever. Where even interpreted languages can beat it.

[contravariant]

What, you think tying namespaces to a web domain that is in no way actually used as one and results in XML that is unreadable in its fully qualified form (or in fact not even valid XML) and changes not just meaning but value as you try to copy paste any part of it, was a bad idea?