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> I hope you are aware that nearly every markdown renderer respects full HTML right?

Yeah, I'm aware.

> That way you can just write prose when you are in content mode. If you want to switch to dev/designer mode you simply have to open a HTML tag.

When I want to just write prose, I can use a WYSIWYG word processor. When I want to make a post on my web page, I can write it in HTML. I rarely benefit from having a third option... markdown, the "mediocre at all things" format, which is not good enough to replace a word processor from the 1990s and not good enough to use in place of HTML when I'm making my web page.

I do actually use markdown... for small snippets of notes. I have all my Emacs setup to edit markdown quite nicely. If the notes start getting too large and detailed, I copy and paste the notes to a word processor, so I don't have to deal with markdown's awful syntax. If the notes evolve into a blog post, I'll rewrite them in HTML--I always rewrite notes anyway, before posting. It's much more common that I start blog posts in a word processor, rather than markdown, though.

> When you can simply think of markdown as a syntax tooling on HTML that is widely human readable (by non-web developers!) without stopping you from having the full power of HTML whenever and however you like it, how is that not a win?

This argument is taking for granted the idea that people like markdown syntax, when I thought that I had been pretty clear that I don't like markdown syntax. I think it's just kinda mediocre at lots of different things, and in the end, is worse than just using plain HTML... except for a few niches, like READMEs on GitHub and comments on Reddit.

To be clear, markdown is not a win for using in my website because it makes my tooling more complicated, and it delivers no benefits.

I can understand why some people like it... surely you can try to understand that some people don't, and we don't just dislike markdown for no reason.



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