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I write plain text. I just happen to format it like markdown.
Markdown…is…plaintext, though?
yup but with more tricks
Markdown is text that can kick flip
Every programming language is plain text.
Not intended to be easily human-readable though.
Sure they are. They’re intended to be as easy to read for a human as possible.
No. The primary purpose of programming languages is to be machine-readable first, human-readable second. The primary purpose of both markdown and plaintext is to be equally readable by both humans and machines.
Assembly, perhaps. But not every other language. Every other language’s sole purpose is to be easier than assembly to read by humans, so it can be compiled or translated through an engine into something a machine can read.
Machines do not read Rust. Machines do not read C++. Machines do not read JavaScript. Humans do.
Machines do read Rust. Just because those machines are compiling the Rust code doesn’t mean they aren’t reading it. And every affordance the Rust devs included to make it easier for that compiler to do its job makes it harder for humans to read, but Markdown’s affordances are equally helpful for humans as for computers; and they’re designed to be so because they were adapted from shorthand that was already in use.
Debate all you want, but the literal first sentence on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
A programming language is an engineered language for expressing computer programs,[1] typically allowing software to be written in a human readable manner.
So is HTML
Markdown would be better if everyone using it used the same markdown. I swear no two places use it the same.
true though
you will change you mind yourself when your
-key breaks from all the--------------------------------------
HEADINGS
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MD is lowkey overrated
I too find Org-mode markup superior.
I wouldn’t dare try to understand the mind that thinks that Markdown is at all like html. 🤷♂️
I mean, Markdown was specifically designed to be convertable to HTML. So, it is structurally rather similar. It’s basically just a bunch of aliases for a subset of HTML tags.
Having said that, it is also designed to be plain text. You don’t have to convert it, and even when you do convert it, there’s a good chance that what you’ve written in plain text will look fine in converted Markdown as well.
For the purposes of this meme, I would certainly group it with plain text.They are both at the end of the day UTF-8 text.
Your mom is Unicode Text.
All we are is bytes in the wind
Behold the holy Grail of text structuring and formatting (as long as you don’t want to deal with LaTeX): orgmode
Typst, Perchance
emacs heretic! begone from this place!
It is absolutely worth it learning it.
how do i use emacs without vim emulation
If you want your vim keybindings inside emacs you can use evil mode
Graphite pencil and paper is God
pointy stick and dirt clearing or gtfo
I do like me some htmx
Markdown is so annoying. I wanted to record a command in Joplin and had the audacity to make it bold to highlight something. Pasted it into their terminal and it put a bunch of asterisks in. Thanks.
Hmm, interesting. I always write Markdown unformatted, so where I put the asterisks in myself. So, that’s a decent reality check, I guess.
LaTeX has entered the chat
Ngl plain txt is the best . But not for writing blog . Need something like # for headings and stuff . To make my blog portable i don’t use mardow much just # for heading and # for tag
