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Every time somebody tries to make a super-simplistic ASCII file format to make raw data "easy for humans", it either ends up sucking for humans, or sucking for
by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
Every time somebody tries to make a super-simplistic ASCII file format to make raw data "easy for humans", it either ends up sucking for humans, or sucking for computers, or both. I get it, the programmer is lazy, so the programmer finds a way to do something they find easier. But that's what gave us YAML and Markdown - the former setting us back in both data serialization and configuration formats, the latter setting us back in document formatting and layout.
It's 2025. Enough with the ASCII. As a human, if I want to map out and display a DAG, I don't want to do it in a text file. Give me a UI or give me death.
- joemi 1y agoYou seem to be confusing the concept of a language with the concept of program used to write in a language. DEML is a language (that's what the "L" is for). A program with a UI, graphical or otherwise, can be used to create a DAG, and then that DAG can be saved in a DEML representation. With that in mind, what you seem to be bothered by (please correct me if I'm wrong) is actually that a language has been released without a UI to abstract away the process of writing it?