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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/programming
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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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[–] Kissaki 14 points 2 months ago (8 children)

TOML instead of YAML or JSON for configuration.

YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

JSON works, but the block quoting and indenting is a lot of noise for a simple category key value format.

[–] NostraDavid 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

YAML is racist to Norwegians.

If you have something like country: NO (NO = Norway), YAML will turn that into country: False. Why? Implicit casting. There are a bunch of truthy strings that'll be cast automagically.

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

That's "country-ist". Nothing to do with the genes of people living over there.

[–] NostraDavid 1 points 2 months ago

True, but that sounds boring.

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