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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Unicode editors for notes/todo formats, making markup unnecessary.

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Does unicode have bold/italics/underline/headings/tables/…etc.? Isn’t that outside of its intended goal? If not, how is markup unnecessary?

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Does unicode have bold/italics/underline/headings/tables/

Yes, and even π“ˆπ“‰π“Šπ’»π’» π•π•šπ•œπ•– πŸ…£πŸ…·πŸ…˜πŸ†‚. And table lines & edges & co. are even already in ASCII.

Isn’t that outside of its intended goal?

🀷<- this emoji has at least 6 color variants and 3 genders.

If not, how is markup unnecessary?

Because the editor could place a 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 instead of a **bold**, which is a best-case-scenario with markdown support btw. And i just had to escspe the stars, which is a problem that native unicode doesn’t pose.

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What about people who prefer to type **bold** rather than type a word, highlight it, and find the Bold option in whichever textbox editor they happen to be using?

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