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I honestly don't find any of these markup languages significantly easier to use than just writing HTML.

• grondilu 9y ago
  I think the point of markup languages is not so much about convenience for writing (assuming that's what you're talking about) rather than readability in pure text form. HTML is readable in pure text but it does not look that great.
  • ams6110 9y ago
    You're right, but as soon as you introduce anything more than you could have done on a typewriter, most of these formats stop looking great pretty quickly also.
• aidenn0 9y ago
  asciidoc is easily 10x easier than writing HTML. Org mode is pretty good too, but I haven't used it for very complex things, so can't make a full comparision. Markdown and restructured text are both easier than HTML for common things, but markdown falls on its face for complicated things and rST ends up devolving into a bunch of directives that are just marginally better than HTML.