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Re:NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by divbzero on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:45PM (#24680345)
Presenting arguments isn’t bad if it’s about something important, but I think by “Hey, I’ve argued about shit all my life!” the GP takes issue more with the “shit” than the arguing.
Re:NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by Wilem82 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:21PM (#24680630)
It's explicitly stated in their comment:

> arguing about slight variations of the same mundanities: XML, XSD, IDL, ASN.1, Avro, JSON... Emacs vs. Vim, Weakly vs. Strongly typed, and so on...

There could be a lot of valid and important arguments around these things. Except maybe vim and emacs, who gives a shit about that.