We have a binary and universal format for plain text (utf8) that is extended all the time with additional emojis. But it seems almost unimaginable that we ever get a binary text format that also allows simple semantic markup, like emphasis, tables, hyperlinks, amounts, dates, and phone numbers.
It's 2022, and really, we should be able to copy a paragraph from an email with a table in it into a chat app and have it just work. HTML is way too complex to use as data communication format between apps (vulnerabilities; every app allows a different subset). Markdown is made for humans to read/write, when what we need is a simple unambiguous binary format that is easy to parse.
We can have compound emojis where a polar bear is a bear + a snowflake joined by a zero-width joiner. But a datetime or number in text is too much to ask?
It's 2022, and really, we should be able to copy a paragraph from an email with a table in it into a chat app and have it just work. HTML is way too complex to use as data communication format between apps (vulnerabilities; every app allows a different subset). Markdown is made for humans to read/write, when what we need is a simple unambiguous binary format that is easy to parse.
We can have compound emojis where a polar bear is a bear + a snowflake joined by a zero-width joiner. But a datetime or number in text is too much to ask?