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Why do we see so many markdown editors? Is there some library or widget out there that everyone starts from to parse and render markdown, and then it just turn
by porcoda 5y ago
Why do we see so many markdown editors? Is there some library or widget out there that everyone starts from to parse and render markdown, and then it just turns into a simple exercise of putting a UI in front of it and adding a tiny number of novel features? I can’t understand why so many people keep producing basically the same application with tiny variations to edit and view what is a relatively simple structured text format. I sort of remember from the 80s the quick and dirty app that you could find many of variants of for Commodore, Apple, and PC systems was a recipe database, largely because it was an easy exercise. Is the markdown editor todays version of that?
- ReleaseCandidat 5y agoMarkdown-it. https://markdown-it.github.io/ https://markdown-it.github.io/ https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it Using Haskell, you could of course use Pandoc directly ;) https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.17.0.1/docs/Text-Pandoc-Readers.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.17.0.1/docs/Tex... https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.17.0.1/docs/Text-Pandoc-Writers.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.17.0.1/docs/Tex...
- riidom 5y agoI believe that markdown editors belong into a certain group of software, which are seemingly simple, but people are for some reason pretty picky about features, UI, and so on. Other members of this group are music/media players, simple organization tools (e.g. time-tracking, to-do), and of course coding-related text editors. I think I had one or two more examples, but don't remember right now. And this leads to a lot of tools being very similar on surface.
- atoav 5y agoI use two markdown editors. One is for quick notes, the other is for writing focused stuff without distractions. It works better that way for me.
- orangea 5y agoThere are a lot of features which a markdown editor can have which are somewhat difficult to implement and get right, such as WYSIWYG with css theming, support for latex equations, support for nonstandard features like Pandoc markdown, plugins, support for the textbundle format... Nothing exists that implement these perfectly and so I think people make attempts at making something that at least works for their specific use case but no one can make the one true editor that does everything because it would be a huge amount of work.
- elcapitan 5y agoFor a while it was todo-apps, now it's markdown editors.