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Gruber is famously protective of the original Markdown specification and his specific use case. He’s reacting to others’ expectations and clarifying his positi
by mechanicalpulse 1y ago
Gruber is famously protective of the original Markdown specification and his specific use case. He’s reacting to others’ expectations and clarifying his position that a “Markdown editor” is a bit of an oxymoron. He supports that position by reiterating his inspiration for creating the format.
- kstrauser 1y agoI understand his point, but I disagree with it. Markdown wasn’t invented for the purposes we use it for today, true. And yet the most popular programming editor today is a website running inside a modified browser, themed with CSS and extended with JavaScript. We have a tendency, as a group, to push things beyond their original intent.