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> a better, cleaner Markdown alternative What makes it better or cleaner? It isn't explained anywhere on the page. It looks about the same as markdown to me.
It looks slightly worse to me. Slightly worse and not even ubiquitous? [Edit:] There's h1 and h2, who'd ever need h3? You gotta be kidding me!
How is it more convenient to add lines under a title than start with a # ? How is it better to limit to h1 and h2 only?
For me, the use of indentation over ``` for code blocks is a complete non-starter, though. It's hostile to copy-and-paste.
How is it more convenient to add lines under a title than start with a # ? How is it better to limit to h1 and h2 only?
I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown, but they're worse in other ways: ambiguous heading levels (quick, which is h2, `===` or `---`?), and less token-efficient. For me, the use of indentation over ``` for code blocks is a complete non-starter, though. It's hostile to copy-and-paste.
Maybe I am spoiled but I rarely read markdown directly. As a user of vscode I do ctrl + shift + v on a markdown file and read the rendered version.
Same for the code part.
This might be easier to read but it’s not simpler.
Come on, two levels ain't enough for anything serious. Also, the notes feature is not rendering any differently.
About five years ago I faced the fact no two Markdown implementations are fully compatible. I made StrictMark[1], which is a backwards-compatible Markdown dialect with a formal grammar (I use Ragel for parser generation btw). Takes 5-10 min with LLMs to make any implementation, cause formal grammar is unchanged. I use it, no one else does, which is not an issue cause it is backwards-compatible. GitHub renders it fine…
Indent for code blocks is a non-starter. Can't paste easily, very annoying to type in a web form. Triple backticks is the right thing.