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And then somebody says "how about we abstract this into some kind of markup language?" and we've come full circle.

• amelius 8y ago
  A common markup language would be great! As long as we use it in a way that keeps us far away from compatibility problems.
  • jononor 8y ago
    You only get away from compatibility problems if either: 1. No-one uses it 2. There is only 1 implementation, and it is never updated
  • wvenable 8y ago
    But you have to make it extendable because you can't predict every possible use-case. So some kind of Extensible Markup Language, perhaps.
    • ljm 8y ago
      Maybe we make a sort of 'hyper' extension that comes with all kinds of baked in behaviours, so that we don't have to implement that behaviour ourselves when we deserialise it.
      • wvenable 8y ago
        That's a good idea. Maybe we need a series of standards but all based on some kind of Standard Generalized markup.