@cwebber @mkljczk
I would call this „old school“ and it's a stamp of quality from the bygone golden days of web design and -publishing. Back then it was simple, noble and classic design and code. After years of Joomla and Wordpress I'm circling back to #FlatFileCMS, #RSS, #HTML and #Markup - and I love it!

@amoroso My thoughts:

- They mix up Markdown with the general term lightweight #markup language (as if #Markdown is the only #LML syntax)

- They ignore all other markup syntax examples such as (La)TeX, HTML, ...

- great screenshots of Word for DOS upwards

- the title should be "#WYSIWYG vs. LML" (instead of the Word vs. Markdown story)

- no mentioning of other LML examples

Well it looks, as if we're settling for a mediocre standard again.

Related: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

@Xhuul I haven't found any decent #Markdown editor yet that convinced me.

And yes, I prefer Emacs with #orgmode.

I even write my text in Org and use the export-to-MD functions to generate the appropriate #MD.

That also saves me from remembering the MD-specifics of the current export target. I always mix up the MD flavors currently at hand because I need to use different MD-enabled tools on a daily basis and all of them have their special markup variants - sometimes it's even necessary to use, e.g., different table syntax (within the same MD tool!) for different table properties such as line breaks and stuff. It's really a bad mess with MD.

Btw: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

@pandoc Great idea!

Let's introduce one slightly change at a time and in a few years we could transform #Markdown into #orgdown without anybody noticing and finally get a consistently designed and easy to learn lightweight #markup language with excellent tool support.

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

@economics

- So if a bunch of corporations just decide to set higher prices, that's inflation?
- That's right.

A video by Jessica Burbank (via @Sui)
Also at: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaburbank/video/7106974872563191083?lang=en

@padeluun

Disclaimer: habe kein Golem+ und daher kenne ich den Inhalt des gesamten Artikels nicht.

Wenn man zwischen #WYSIWYG-Editoren, komplexen #Markup Sprachen wie #HTML oder #LaTeX und #Markdown unterscheidet, hat MD einige Vorteile.

Vergleicht man allerdings die Lightweight Markup Languages (#LML) untereinander, so sind die Nachteile von #MD im Vergleich zu den Alternativen offensichtlich.

Beispiel #orgmode: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

IMHO sollten bessere LML geboostet werden.

@pludikovsky When people are in favor of #Markdown, they either do mean the concept of lightweight #markup languages (#LML) in general (yeah!) or they do not really know many other LMLs in comparison.

Furthermore, people voting for MD often do ignore the obvious downsides of that ecosystem because they have already overcome some of them, ignoring the majority of people who still need to learn that LML in future.

@pludikovsky Here is my summary why I do think that #Markdown is not a good lightweight #markup language compared to #orgdown (or the syntax of #orgmode): https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

Org Mode Syntax Is Intuitive, Easy to Learn and Remember

Org Mode Syntax Is Standardized

Org Mode Syntax Is Consistent

Org Mode Syntax Can Be Easily Typed

Org Mode Syntax Makes Sense Outside of Emacs

Org Mode Syntax Has Excellent Tool Support (If You Want)

... and for most of those arguments, Markdown is worse.

"The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. That instability, it seems, translates into capitalists’ fears about the future. When the price system is more unstable, capitalists discount present income more steeply."

in "The Ritual of Capitalization" by @blair_fix: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/06/02/the-ritual-of-capitalization/