if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 years ago

    I don’t give a shit which debugging format any platform picks, but if they could each pick one that every emulator reads and every compiler emits, that’d be fucking great.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      2 years ago

      Even more simpler, I’d really like if we could just unify whether or not $ is needed for variables, and pick # or // for comments. I’m sick of breaking my brain when I flip between languages because of these stupid nuance inconsistencies.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 years ago

        Don’t forget ; is a comment in assembly.

        For extra fun, did you know // wasn’t standardized until C99? Comments in K&R C are all /* */. Possibly the most tedious commending format ever devised.