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.
Depending where you use it, but often tables are available in markdown.
| markdown | table |
|---|---|
| x | y |
|markdown|table|
|--|---|
|x|y|
Fixed…cos you could only see rendered and not code.
Oh. Good one. Markdown everywhere. Slack always pissed me off for it’s sub par markdown support.
There is an option in the settings to use markdown formatting. I haven’t tried it but I guess it at least makes formatting less annoying.
I fixed it for you (markdown tables support padding to make them easy to read):
| markdown | table |
|---|---|
| x | y |
|markdown|table|
|--------|-----|
|x |y |
The syntax is only difficult to read in their example.
I fixed their example here: https://programming.dev/comment/12087783
