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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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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Zigbee or really any Bluetooth alternative.

Bluetooth is a poorly engineered protocol. It jumps around the spectrum while transmitting, which makes it difficult and power intensive for bluetooth receivers to track.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I agree Bluetooth (at least Bluetooth Classic) is not very well designed, but not because of frequency hopping. That improves robustness and I don't see why it would cost any more power. The hopping pattern is deterministic. Receivers know in advance which frequency to hop to.

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