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It fills most of the same niches as a tool which is currently extremely widely used (Markdown) without having any major benefits over it. Probably the single bi
by ogre_codes 8y ago
It fills most of the same niches as a tool which is currently extremely widely used (Markdown) without having any major benefits over it. Probably the single biggest improvement I see is the link syntax which I find bothersome in Markdown for the reasons the author suggests (parens first or brackets first). Aside from that, tooling for Markdown is massively better with dozens of tools supporting Markdown parsing and authoring. Yes there are a lot of sub-versions of Markdown, but if you know the basic markdown features you can use any of them.
- submeta 8y ago> ... without having any major benefits over it. How about tables?
- ogre_codes 8y agoFair point. Though I would suggest that one of the strengths of Markdown is the fact that the basics are simple and easy to understand and it leaves more advanced concepts to specific implementations. So there are implementations for everything from code comments (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/language/how-to-add-markdown-comments-to-your-code https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/language/how-t...) to Script Writing (https://fountain.io https://fountain.io) which have features specific to their respective domains. Markdown itself doesn't have a huge featureset but the sub-markup languages which inherit from it do. Edit: What I find more confusing about Markdown is actually incomplete implementations like what's used by HN.