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> It always bothered me how a user-hostile piece of software like git rapidly took over the world. After almost 7 years on git I have given up on getting git a
by crossroadsguy 5y ago
> It always bothered me how a user-hostile piece of software like git rapidly took over the world.
After almost 7 years on git I have given up on getting git and I stick to what that XKCD comic said - remember some commands and just keep syncing. It felt one has to make it into a masochistic exercise to understand it.
I feel similar about Markdown (though I won't call it user hostile). Because there were and there are better and accessible/uncomplicated alternatives.
- aidenn0 5y ago> I feel similar about Markdown (though I won't call it user hostile). Because there were and there are better and accessible/uncomplicated alternatives. I don't know; all of the lightweight markup formats are a mess. AsciiDoc/AsciiDoctor is almost great but they seem to have completely borked escaping of inline punctutation[1] Restructured Text is very "meh" but is better than markdown because directives at least make it more sanely extensible. The downside is it's missing lots of features in its core becase "you can just use a directive" Markdown was actually pretty good for its original purpose (write html with fewer html tags), but completely falls down for its current common use case (untrusted user input, where you won't allow the user to fallback on html). 1: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/901 https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/901
- ajkjk 5y agoI'm eh about Git but .. I love markdown. Sure it has some rough edges but it is such a good idea, and I'm so glad it caught on everywhere.