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
    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.

    • tal
      4·
      1 year ago

      ; is also used by LISP.

      And there’s REM in BASIC.

      • 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.)

        • tal
          3·
          1 year ago

          Fortran uses ! or C in the appropriate column.

          • 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.

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

                APL is its own special hell, on this front. A programming language you need a custom keyboard to type is like saying your favorite map projection is a globe. D-, did not read assignment.

    • 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)