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!

    • TechNom (nobody)@programming.devEnglish
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      2 years 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.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

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

      • frezik@midwest.social
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        2 years 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@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 years ago

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

          • frezik@midwest.social
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            2 years 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?