Why are we still using Markdown?
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Why are we still using Markdown?
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Re: Why are we still using Markdown?
#2Aaron needs to hurry up and reincarnate already.
Re: Why are we still using Markdown?
#3Because, like UNIX/Linux itself, worse is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better - and perfect is the enemy of "good enough."
We want to encourage people to produce written output with minimal friction. Barriers to writing--and especially barriers to producing documentation--should be minimized. Writing well is difficult enough!
Markup is overhead. Complex markup is even more overhead. Markdown is the best compromise we know of today that provides just enough structure and typographic capability, while imposing very little cognitive load on the author.
Besides, if you need something more complicated these days, you can have your favorite AI agent do it.
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#4i use it because it does what i want and is easy to use.
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#5This website, at least in dark mode, doesn't have any visible indication when text is selected.
... Which is additionally frustrating, since the links at the bottom aren't actually links (so you have to select them to copy and paste into your address bar)
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#6When I read articles like this my reaction is always “put up or shut up.”
If you have a better idea, make it happen.
The author merely described the parameters of a solution and didn’t even attempt to solve it.
In essence, we aren’t even left certain that a better solution that satisfies all stakeholders is possible.
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#7These examples are contrived af.
Nobody uses markdown like that bro. We like markdown because it's easy to read both rendered and raw.
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#8Because I think it’s fair to say it’s becoming a standard format for ai agent specs docs etc. It’s not going away anytime soon.
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#9I don't think Markdown should be (ab)used as a programming language. It should be treated as a plaintext container that has some formatting to organize the contents.
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#10Ambiguous means unclear meaning, not that there is more than one way to achieve the same thing.
Html has that same problem. Think , , , etc. That’s life. Get used to it.