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What I find baffling is that we're in 2025 and people still can't make a decent, simple, interoperable WYSIWYG text editor without that markdown cancer. This cr
by macchi 2y ago
What I find baffling is that we're in 2025 and people still can't make a decent, simple, interoperable WYSIWYG text editor without that markdown cancer. This crap has to be shoved at everybody's face in almost every good app because some nerds want to read code no matter what. I really despise that crap.
- esafak 2y agoSome nerds read and write code for a living, and they invented Markdown too, so what are you proposing? This nerd wants to read and write equations too.
- wakawaka28 2y agoAre you kidding? There are lots of WYSIWYGs of various kinds out there and some of them are decent. You can get them for Markdown, HTML, RTF, and many other formats. But the real common denominator between most apps is text. You could try HTML, but that is much more code-like than Markdown. It would be wildly unreasonable to make text into a binary-only thing that you can only paste into apps that support the particular encoding that you're using.