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submitted 7 months ago by skepller@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] derek@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm a fan of NestedText. It's no panacea but I'd argue it's the most well-considered and useful file format for structured data in plain text.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There just needs to be one universal standard that handles everyone’s use cases

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

https://xkcd.com/927/

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

No, for multiple standards that handle their usecase good.

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