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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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[–] jaxxed 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Org-mode is like md but has tables and more. Emacs will even run computation as a party of interpretation. GitHub accepts it in place of markdown.

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

Would you say it's worth considering in place of markdown for a non-emacs user? (I am curious to try emacs but I may not get to it anytime soon)

[–] jaxxed 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't say that it is, no.

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

Haha appreciate the honesty :)

[–] jaxxed 3 points 2 months ago

I do recommend emacs though. It is not the greatest editor, but it is an amazing experience. It is such an amazing experiment, that has an extensive set of different ways of looking at content and code - it will change how you think about coding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

org-mode is awesome for many reasons, but the similarities/overlap with markdown are an incidental benefit. I wouldn't learn org-mode for that reason, however there are many other good ones that make it worthwhile. I've been using it for years for my own project management, tasks tracking, notes and many other things - it's one of those rare tools that can do many things incredibly well.