[rahkiin]

What you say about google might be true. And its changes to android might be bad…

But that does not mean xslt should be kept alive just because of that. It should be judged on its own merits

[_heimdall]

And thats part of the problem, they didn't judge it on its merits.

Google judged a 25 year old spec that is now 2 major versions out of date.

[jeltz]

So why is almost nobody here actually defending it on its own merits? In my opinion XSLT was a bad idea ~20 years ago when I started in web development. It was convoluted, not nice to work with and the implementations buggy.

Most people seem to think it is bad because it is Google who want to remove it. Personally I just see Google finally doing something good.