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
  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    1 year 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
      5·
      1 year 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.

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          Batch files also use REM. Or ::. Each of which causes syntax errors in completely different scenarios.

          M4 says it uses #, but that’s an echo, and dnl is for real comments.

          CSS still forces K&R style, but on reflection, that’s nothing compared to HTML’s ⋖!-- --> nonsense. (Edit: or Lemmy’s idiotic erasure of HTML-like blocks. If they’re not allowed… show them as text, fools.)

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

              in the appropriate column.

              Alright that’s just hideous.

              Forth uses \, and can do block comments with ( and ), except ) is optional in interpreted mode.

              Algol 60 used ¢. ¢ isn’t even in ASCII, so god knows how that “your two cents” joke ever happened. How can a language this boring still exemplify how all programmers are dorks?

              Visual Basic uses ' because go fuck yourself. QBASIC origins or not, I don’t know how this shipped without at least one meeting where somebody got stabbed. Even the Systems Hungarian heretics should have recoiled in horror.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        /* */ is used in CSS as well, I think.

        Also we’ve got VB (and probably BASIC) out there using ' because why not lol

        [EDIT] I stand corrected by another comment REM is what BASIC uses. DOS batch files use that, too. They’re old though, maybe we give them a pass “it’s okay grampa, let’s get you back to the museum” 🤣 (disclaimer: I am also old, don’t worry)