I haven't dealt with "a lot of XML" in Java for ages. I've been using it in my day job for a decade, and about the only XML I touch is pom.xml (that's the build file for Maven). This is like complaining about stuff in Java 1.4 -- sure, but we haven't been using it for ages.
Please don't take it the wrong way, but the days of XML for everything are long gone, and for years in Java it's been XML for nothing as a counter reaction.
Please don't take it the wrong way, but the days of XML for everything are long gone, and for years in Java it's been XML for nothing as a counter reaction.