There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

  • @BodilessGaze
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    https://cuelang.org/. I deal with a lot of k8s at work, and I’ve grown to hate YAML for complex configuration. The extra guardrails that Cue provides are hugely helpful for large projects.

    • Eager Eagle
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      Oh this! YAML was a terrible choice. And that’s coming from someone who likes Python and prefers white spaces over brackets. YAML never clicked for me.

      https://noyaml.com/

    • @[email protected]
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      Oh, this looks great!
      I’ve been struggling between customize and helm. Neither seem to make k8s easier to work with.

      I have to try cuelang now. Something sensible without significant whitespace that confuses editors, variables without templating.
      I’ll have to see how it holds up with my projects