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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wish there was a good open standard for task management or todo list.

I know there's todo.txt, but it lacks features like dependent tasks, and overall the plain text format limits features and implementations.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think CalDAV (which uses the iCalendar format) may be the closest thing. It covers calendar items, obviously, but also task and journal items.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do you know if it allows dependent tasks?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yes, but not all clients expose dependent tasks (which is sadly a common issue with open standards: they aren't always properly implemented). I'm using Tasks.org on my phone (which supports dependent tasks), synchronizing to a Nextcloud server with the Tasks app (which supports dependent tasks now, but didn't for a long time), which also syncs to Thunderbird (which does not appear to show dependent tasks as dependents).

    Edit: remembered that the Nextcloud Tasks app has long supported dependent tasks. I was thinking of recurring tasks, which it does not support. Again, open standards aren't always fully implemented.

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