Why Android used XML (and what I understood after a conversation with my CTO)

Today I had a really interesting conversation with my CTO about something that seems simple: Why did Android use XML for UI? At first, it’s easy to look at it from today’s perspective and think: “Why not just write everything in Kotlin?” But the conversation went deeper than that. XML and HTML are not that different One of the first things we talked about is how XML and HTML are actually quite similar. Both are markup languages. Both describe structure. But the key difference is intention. HTML