I have pretty much no interest in another markup language (or whatever we're calling these sorts of things today[1]) but I really want the slashdash comment style in every language I use now, that's an incredible idea. [1] apparently I didn't edit this in fast enough but wow I have even less interest in semantic arguments about what is and isn't a markup language.
Why is the slashdash comment style an incredible idea?
because commenting out multiple lines of code in most languages is tedious and involves me doing work the compiler already knows how to do in my head.
Sure, editors often have shortcuts, but then undoing them is often a pain and sometimes I'm editing something in a really basic editor and it'd be nice to just let the compiler to it.