GoKawiilThere are few things in life that bring me much joy and hate at the same time. Like chocolate that hurts when eaten and markdown . Seriously why?? Half of the time we aren’t even using the full language!
HTML is the best Programming Language!
I know you’ve heard people say the only programming language they know is HTML. And I know, we both rolled our eyes in discontent trying to get our PL papers out of our assembled decks of papers on how HTML is only a markup language and not a programming language.
I mean yes we’re on the right but that guy probably has something we don’t have.
A life.
[Note] When I’m talking about markdown, I am specifically talking about CommonMark Unless stated otherwise. Because it is the unambiguous syntax specification. I love the project, I really appreciate their efforts on making this language a bit more grounded. It’s not the specification that’s broken, it’s the language itself.
The Good
Markdown is a minimal language used for typesetting trivial documents. It needs to do one simple job: get a Markdown file and output an HTML file. Its syntax is legible as it gets and is easy to write even with no assists. Like the C language you can see the output that will be created. Bold is always <b></b> at the end and italic the same.
Learning curve is simply nonexistent if you’re just a casual user. Just one look at the cheat sheet and you’re ready.
The Bad
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