yaml & other finds.

i was browsing through a github repo a few days ago, & came across a .yaml file. it was strange because i had never seen it before or maybe i had but just never paid attention to it. i never heard anyone mention yaml in my college ever, i mean why would they. i ended up searching what yaml was and found out it’s not as obscure as i thought it was, it’s used in configuration files apparently. a readable data-serialization language. and YAML ain’t markup language. that’s the full form (arguably^↗).

around that time, i was learning rust (i’m still learning it), and its documentation talked about Cargo.toml - another configuration format, and a very interesting name. Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language. it’s simpler than yaml, as the name suggests. and the use cases are pretty different.

one of my senior friends recommended haskell for programming algorithms. he said it’ll help you think better. haskell looked expressive. won’t say easy to understand (yet), but it’s definitely something worth exploring. when i was in 5th grade i got myself a book about html and i played around that language, into notepad and onto chrome, just for fun. it still makes up so much of the internet. (you’re reading this on an html page.) these finds fascinated me, and i was the same kid again, but with documentation instead of a book. this realization pushed me to learn more, there’s so much cool stuff out there. and you literally stumble across them.

shoutout to markdown and .adoc

thanks for reading.