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TIL there is a markup language war. Who are the combatants?
by irrational 1y ago
TIL there is a markup language war. Who are the combatants?
- stingraycharles 1y agoRST is one.
- TheDong 1y agohtml, markdown, reStructuredText, wikitext, AsciiDoc, emacs org mode, LaTeX, and a bunch of others. In some contexts, JSX and markdown are also competing. I think HTML is the true winner.
- Diti 1y agoI also vote for HTML. It’s the only language I can write in which also includes all the metadata I want to include (schema.org and wikidata.org ontologies).
- Diti 1y agoI’m very curious about why I’ve been downvoted. I assumed the HN crowd was tech-savvy enough to know what ontologies are? And one can’t write a blog post in Turtle.
- slightwinder 1y agoDepends on which war we are talking about. Personal writing? Professional writing? Machine-readable? For personal writing, HTML is not really participating, for the rest, mostly yes, even though for AI-tooling markdown seems the preferred language now. Which opens the question, is there a real advantage in using Markdown with AI instead of HTML? Or did nobody ever tried this?