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> I have no idea why anyone gives credence to Gruber after his history of “incredible to the point of incredulity” pro-Apple bias over the years. Once upon a t
by paradox460 2y ago
> I have no idea why anyone gives credence to Gruber after his history of “incredible to the point of incredulity” pro-Apple bias over the years.
Once upon a time he made a variant of textile and restructuredtext, with a lot of help from Aaron Swartz. Turns out it's a really good invention. But everything else is just mindlessly pro Apple bloviating to the point of self parody. He's probably one of a few hundred who bought the iPod hifi
- calmbonsai 2y agoAgreed on Markdown. It illustrated there was an unfilled niche in mark-up between Unix plain-text, HTML, and RTF. I use it nearly every day. I adore that CommonMark exists too: https://commonmark.org/ https://commonmark.org/ .
- paradox460 2y agoAnd out of CommonMark John MacFarlane created djot[1], which (imo) is awesome and a solution to virtually all Markdown woes, while still being close enough to pure Markdown/CommonMark that it doesn't feel that different when using. [1]: djot.net/
- calmbonsai 2y agoThanks! I'll review the repo tonight. I'm designing a new workflow pipeline atm, and it's worth seeing if the djot juice is worth the squeeze.