Firstly, I highly respect Lisp personally, and I have no intention of downplaying it. As some have seen, the Lisp spirit is actually in the design of Mark. Sec

Firstly, I highly respect Lisp personally, and I have no intention of downplaying it. As some have seen, the Lisp spirit is actually in the design of Mark. Secondly, to clarify what I mean by 'being more modern'. Of course, it does not mean changing from () to <> or {}, will make it more modern or something better. Being 'more modern' means Mark takes a JS-first or web-first approach in its design. Whether we like it or not, JS has dominated the web. JSON is successful, partly because it takes a JS-first approach. Mark inherits this approach. Being JS-first, means there'll be least adoption barrier in web. Being JS-first, of course does not mean JS-only. Mark is designed to be generic and used by other programming languages like JSON.