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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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

JSON5. it's basically just JSON with several QoL improvements, like comments, that make it usable as a format for human consumption (as opposed to a serialization format).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Objects may have a single trailing comma.

I just came.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I love that there's someone out there who's that passionate about JSON.

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

I hate grammers in anything that don't support trailing commas. It's even worse when it's supported in some contexts and not others. Like lists are OK, but not function parameters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

TMI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

TIL this exists