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!

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
    51·
    3 months ago

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

    • frezik@midwest.social
      1·
      3 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@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        3 months ago

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

        • frezik@midwest.social
          1·
          3 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?