The history of document file formats:
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... or when you want to search for text inside of a directory full of those files.
Just use a decent binary format to begin with, brah.
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@rl_dane Git diff and binary formats don't play well together.
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@rl_dane But thanks to zip archives, I have done truly horrible things to ODT files back when I still used those. :D
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What do you use now?
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@rl_dane Markdown with YAML headers for writing, JSON for configuration files (because I can't get my head wrapped properly around KDL), and whatever language needs the source (which also lets me push it over to a packaged system like NPM or NuGet if needed).
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Lately I've been using TOML for configuration files.
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I don't really "enjoy" it either, but it does a great job and I hate it less than all the other options.
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@amin @rl_dane I like the look and feel of KDL (https://kdl.dev/) but the C# and Rust developer experience isn't quite as polished.
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I admit I don't really like that the languages I use now are whitespace-based.
…but if I allow myself to forget that they are, I really enjoy using them. And I'm not sure what that says.
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function > form, I guess.
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(But I personally much rather use punctuation than whitespace. By a parsec)
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I mean the way I see it you've gotta use whitespace either way if you want things to be readable.
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Absolutely, and I wouldn't even mind that much if a set amount/style of whitespace were enforced by linter or whatnot.
It's the whitespace-as-punctuation that is weird to me.
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From a technical standpoint, line breaks certainly punctuate. ;)
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hence poetry
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Python is poetry. JavaScript is prose.
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