Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • Dessalines
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    118 months ago

    Most ppl have settled on Commonmark luckily, including us.

    • TechNom (nobody)
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      148 months ago

      Commonmark leaves some stuff like tables unspecified. That creates the need for another layer like GFM or mistletoe. Standardization is not a strong point for markdown.

      • Dessalines
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        68 months ago

        I believe commonmark tries to specify a minimum baseline spec, and doesn’t try to to expand beyond that. It can be frustrating bc we’d like to see tables, superscripts, spoilers, and other things standardized, but I can see why they’d want to keep things minimal.

        • TechNom (nobody)
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          78 months ago

          Asciidoc is a good example of why everything should be standardized. While markdown has multiple implementations, any document is tied to just one implementation. Asciidoc has just one implementation. But when the standard is ready, you should be able to switch implementations seamlessly.

    • xigoi
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      8 months ago

      Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        What’s the alternative? We either have everything specified well, or we’ll have a million slightly incompatible implementations. I’ll take the big specification. At least it’s not HTML5.

        • xigoi
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          18 months ago

          An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            And then we’ll be back to a hundred slightly incompatible versions. You need detailed specifications to avoid that. Why not stick to markdown?