I’d personally prefer to write markdown instead of html, especially when writing comments on sites like these. But I have to know that stars represent html ita

I’d personally prefer to write markdown instead of html, especially when writing comments on sites like these. But I have to know that stars represent html italic tags (and bunches of other stuff). Thankfully this has been standardised and every markdown parser knows what stars mean. So I only have to learn this once. Most frameworks haven’t been standardised and that’s where the frustration lies. Abstraction is good when it becomes a commonality, bad when it remains niche.