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by UIZealot 1712 days ago
> android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1

The Android API is primarily geared towards constructing GUIs declaratively in XML, and as with anything infected with the XML plague, it's a huge bloated mess half of which is braindead useless.

I honestly can't blame anyone for screaming in horror and running away to ReactJS, or just anything else.
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pjmlp 1712 days ago
XML is like democracy, anything else that tries to replace it, does a lousy job getting comments, schema validation, streaming parser libraries and IDE tooling.

May I be safe from React as much as possible.

In any case, Composer just hit stable for all of those Kotlin lovers.

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UIZealot 1712 days ago
Maybe XML could be the right tool for some jobs, it's just that the entire industry have searched for these jobs for the past two decades, and very few have turned up.

In other words, it's a solution looking for a problem, and it's still looking.

GUI construction? XML is the wrong tool here again, but not for lack of trying. Tech powerhouses Google and Microsoft got caught up in the hype as well. The results, the Android API and XAML, speak for themselves, negatively.

> XML is like democracy

No it's not. Please don't bring politics into technical discussions, it clouds your judgement.

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pjmlp 1712 days ago
Everything is about politics.

I advise reading about technology sales practices.

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