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!

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    6 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
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      6 months ago

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

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        6 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?