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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most ppl have settled on Commonmark luckily, including us.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Commonmark leaves some stuff like tables unspecified. That creates the need for another layer like GFM or mistletoe. Standardization is not a strong point for markdown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe commonmark tries to specify a minimum baseline spec, and doesn't try to to expand beyond that. It can be frustrating bc we'd like to see tables, superscripts, spoilers, and other things standardized, but I can see why they'd want to keep things minimal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Asciidoc is a good example of why everything should be standardized. While markdown has multiple implementations, any document is tied to just one implementation. Asciidoc has just one implementation. But when the standard is ready, you should be able to switch implementations seamlessly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's the alternative? We either have everything specified well, or we'll have a million slightly incompatible implementations. I'll take the big specification. At least it's not HTML5.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then we'll be back to a hundred slightly incompatible versions. You need detailed specifications to avoid that. Why not stick to markdown?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not if the language is standardized from the start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sure it will. It will be a detailed language from the start.