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I've heard very similar arguments, for Perl, a couple of decades ago. And yeah, it's not entirely wrong. Perl was useful, too. But I desperately want the thin
by vintermann 4y ago
I've heard very similar arguments, for Perl, a couple of decades ago.
And yeah, it's not entirely wrong. Perl was useful, too.
But I desperately want the thing that is for markdown what modern JavaScript, Python and Go have become for Perl.
I want a markup language that supports the most basic things, looks reasonable on the eyes in un-rendered form (so we don't need terrible rich text editors everywhere), and is very friendly to being embedded in bigger documents of its own type or plaintext. It should be possible to have that with a proper, unambiguous (both for humans and for computers) spec.
- ogogmad 4y agoI just figured out how to get the Asciidoc plugin in VScode to display Latex formulas. Asciidoc might be it. It's fairly comprehensive. That, or Org-mode -- but then you have to learn Emacs.
- vintermann 4y agoAsciidoc looks really promising. Thank you!
- trey-jones 4y agoThere is an org-mode port in vscode. But I haven't used it. I use Emacs!
- WorldMaker 4y agoreStructuredText met a lot of what you are looking for in that "modern" markup language, though reStructuredText doesn't have much of a life outside of the Python ecosystem still.