Deml: The Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language

Re:Deml: The Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language by 0xbadcafebee on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:13PM (#45428220)

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.

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Re:Deml: The Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language by joemi on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @04:03PM (#45430527)

You 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?

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