Isn't Markdown's hallmark its versatility while performant?
I see there is an increasing call from tech community towards HTML to be adopted instead of Markdown due to its richness in the agentic communication layer. But is it versatile across any kind of interfaces? versatile with different format conversions? and performant (as the md is lightweight)?
Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
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Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#2What do you mean if? The internet is built on html. Markdown is a random flare up of an annoying annotation standard pushed by LLMs. No one used Markdown anywhere near at the scale of html before ChatGPT
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#3What do you mean if? The internet is built on html. Markdown is a random flare up of an annoying annotation standard pushed by LLMs. No one used Markdown anywhere near at the scale of html before ChatGPT
Thats a complete reductive idea of MDs. MD was long spawn before LLMs as a need for light weight formatting and easy conversion to different formats. No one used at that scale doesnt mean the absence of the utility for it, as the primary adopters were tech community and that was a layer below the consumer market. Utility obviously stands, the question is, can HTML supersede on that utility side of it in all developer work components.
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#4A) Who cares? What performance are you even talking about? Number of tokens?
B) HTML can contain data, layout, and design within a single file. Markdown isn’t comparable. There will be many situations where Markdown can’t do what HTML, so this is overall a silly comparison.
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#5A) Who cares? What performance are you even talking about? Number of tokens? B) HTML can contain data, layout, and design within a single file. Markdown isn’t comparable. There will be many situations where Markdown can’t do what HTML, so this is overall a silly comparison.
A) Enterprises for one, e.g Rendering of an HTML page vs MD in an AI IDE or even tokens (compounding costs for a communication doc may be billions in a year)
B) True, its a subset, nobody is arguing against it. HTML has overheads in terms of stylings. MD in essence is just a straight arrow.
If there is a communication between two points with ultimate low latency way with readability and threshold just enough to have the idea, MD passes that mark. As tokens needs to conserved
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#6What do you mean if? The internet is built on html. Markdown is a random flare up of an annoying annotation standard pushed by LLMs. No one used Markdown anywhere near at the scale of html before ChatGPT
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Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#8A) Who cares? What performance are you even talking about? Number of tokens? B) HTML can contain data, layout, and design within a single file. Markdown isn’t comparable. There will be many situations where Markdown can’t do what HTML, so this is overall a silly comparison.
A) Enterprises for one, e.g Rendering of an HTML page vs MD in an AI IDE or even tokens (compounding costs for a communication doc may be billions in a year) B) True, its a subset, nobody is arguing against it. HTML has overheads in terms of stylings. MD in essence is just a straight arrow. If there is a communication between two points with ultimate low latency way with readability and threshold just enough to have…
Nobody cares about “tokens”
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#9HTML offers more flexibility
while markdown is usually easier to create
Re: Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
#10HTML for human? Markdown for Agent?