vruz, 8 months ago

@nxadm

Markdown is a rough idea and a moving target scribbled down by a blogger for his particular needs in his limited scope.

Any long-term work should be based on a better defined derivative such as CommonMark, Pandoc Markdown, Github's GFM, or Markdig.

I assume that's what they actually mean, and not "Markdown" literally, otherwise they're stepping into trouble.

#Markdown #Perl

nxadm, 8 months ago

@vruz

I think the feature-set is limited and I trust the knowledge of people introducing the change.

But it's a fact that most devs know some markdown nowadays (probably the GitHub dialect) and not many feel joy when they have to learn yet another documentation format limited to a single language.

#perl #rakulang #markdown

mjgardner, 8 months ago

@nxadm @vruz Would have been a neat alternate timeline if @gruber just used #Perl #POD instead of inventing #Markdown, but the former admittedly isn’t quite as aesthetic when viewed as plain text.

(As evidenced by the above sentence, which would have had to say I<quite> in POD for the same effect.)

Different times, different use cases: POD was invented in a world of man pages and ugly nroff codes; Markdown in web pages in ugly #HTML.

gruber, 8 months ago

@mjgardner @nxadm @vruz I have written POD and it was a minor influence on Markdown, but it’s not humane enough.