All these goofy syntaxes encode groves, meaning trees annotated with key/value pairs. XML, JSON, YAML, etc. Pretty good for serializing object graphs and so forth.
What syntax (sugar) is good for tabular data too?
My persona grove syntax is (secretly) awesome. Think JSON superset, like HOCON, HJSON, and SCON, but with more scalar data types, tweaked ergonomics, and conveniences.
But for the life of me, I still don't have an obvious syntax extension for tables. Like inlining CSV. Or how markdown does tables. (Nested arrays for representing a matrix sucks.)
The One True Syntax to unify groves and tables could really benefit all these big data (NumPy) and note keeping (Notion, Roam) projects.
All these goofy syntaxes encode groves, meaning trees annotated with key/value pairs. XML, JSON, YAML, etc. Pretty good for serializing object graphs and so forth.
What syntax (sugar) is good for tabular data too?
My persona grove syntax is (secretly) awesome. Think JSON superset, like HOCON, HJSON, and SCON, but with more scalar data types, tweaked ergonomics, and conveniences.
But for the life of me, I still don't have an obvious syntax extension for tables. Like inlining CSV. Or how markdown does tables. (Nested arrays for representing a matrix sucks.)
The One True Syntax to unify groves and tables could really benefit all these big data (NumPy) and note keeping (Notion, Roam) projects.