alt.hn

4/3/2025 at 12:16:04 AM

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

by cratermoon

4/3/2025 at 1:14:04 AM

Pandoc is to me the single most useful visible Haskell outcome. The entire language would be justified to me by this polyglot format translator

by ggm

4/3/2025 at 5:42:19 AM

Good stuff but criminal to not mention Obsidian

Why would I buy a subscription to a markdown editor when Obsidian exists

by nylonstrung

4/3/2025 at 3:18:35 PM

Because you just want an editor and Obsidian is not an editor?

by cratermoon

4/3/2025 at 12:24:49 AM

I think markdown's success comes from it's open and simple standards. When things can be easily parsed and rendered, anyone can build tools that use it. When things are interoperable, the tools can change but the format lasts forever.

by forthwall

4/3/2025 at 3:13:42 AM

Their main product -- Windows and Mac platforms only:

https://ia.net/writer

Can't seem to find screenshots. Anyone used it?

by everybodyknows

4/3/2025 at 9:53:16 PM

I tried it out. I found I prefer my editor to be less visual, like vi or emacs. I write raw markdown, and occasionally look at a preview window. Structure is everything for me, even minimal styling distracts me.

by cratermoon