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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] BodilessGaze 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://cuelang.org/. I deal with a lot of k8s at work, and I've grown to hate YAML for complex configuration. The extra guardrails that Cue provides are hugely helpful for large projects.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh this! YAML was a terrible choice. And that's coming from someone who likes Python and prefers white spaces over brackets. YAML never clicked for me.

https://noyaml.com/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

What you mean you can't easily tell what this is?

- foo:
  -
  - :
    - bar:
      baz: [
        - -
      ]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Hmm, what alternative? XML :-)? People hate Grade DSL just for not being xml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, this looks great!
I've been struggling between customize and helm. Neither seem to make k8s easier to work with.

I have to try cuelang now. Something sensible without significant whitespace that confuses editors, variables without templating.
I'll have to see how it holds up with my projects