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Of course, but this is just an instance of TFA's key observation:

> Geeks think they're rational beings, while they're completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions.

To which I want to add 1. that geeks young and old try also to pad their resume and eg use React and under all circumstances whether it's warranted or not (which seems at least rational from a personal career development PoV) 2. geeks think the web is about them, completely and utterly failing to understand that its entire point is easy self-publishing.

As to next.js specifically, it obviously doesn't make sense to tie serverless to React. Also, it doesn't make sense, like at all, to use React for smallish trivial internal web UIs when the main app is written in another backend language and your team has no js coding experience which just invites security nightmares and endless updates, and breaks agility and job rotation for no reason.

As to XML, there's a minor factual misunderstanding here in that DTDs, like XML itself, isn't a genuine inception, but rather a simplification and proper subset of SGML intended for the web where it has failed (even though it sees plenty use outside).

But that should't take away from the main point: that you don't go around advertising your fscking format without checking requirements. In this case, using XML (or SGML and HTML) for something that isn't document data, or conversely, using eg JSON for text documents. Just makes you look like a one trick pony.



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