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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] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Depending where you use it, but often tables are available in markdown.

markdown	table
x	y

 |markdown|table|
 |--|---|
 |x|y|

Fixed..cos you could only see rendered and not code.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Good one. Markdown everywhere. Slack always pissed me off for it's sub par markdown support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is an option in the settings to use markdown formatting. I haven't tried it but I guess it at least makes formatting less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

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

Markdown tables are terrible though. Try and put a code block in there. Adoc tables are amazing on the other hand, but much more verbose to write.

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

I fixed it for you (markdown tables support padding to make them easy to read):

markdown	table
x	y

|markdown|table|
|--------|-----|
|x       |y    |

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

deleted by creator, who realised their misunderstanding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue this syntax is difficult to read, especially as it scales

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

The syntax is only difficult to read in their example.

I fixed their example here: https://programming.dev/comment/12087783