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I don't understand the usefulness of Microsoft investing time in writing a built in half finished markdown rendering engine. With Linux these things just pop up
by kyleperik 8y ago
I don't understand the usefulness of Microsoft investing time in writing a built in half finished markdown rendering engine. With Linux these things just pop up and get popular as people get used to them. Feels like Microsoft is trying to just woo developers on the fence.
- kyleperik 8y agoWhy is this getting down voted? I'm giving a valid point, and no one seems to have a rebuttal. Why would they make this?
- forgotpwd16 8y agoThis a preview version so half-baked features are to be expected. More to point, from the PR, according to one of the collaborators "[t]he goal here is to open the way for native supporting help files in Mardown format. So currently [they] only need "convert from Markdown" and rendering. Later [they] could add other cmdlets." It seems Microsoft plan is to make a `man` (or `info`?) system but using a sane language instead.
- kyleperik 8y agoThank you for the thorough explanation. Still seems odd, as markdown by definition isn't really meant to be displayed in a terminal. Markup: "the process or result of correcting text in preparation for printing." This further confirms my suspicions about Microsoft's motives. If they wanted to make a `man` system, they would have made one, instead of working on markdown in the terminal which sounds quite trendy amongst Linux users.