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		jiggawatts on Oct 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Is Markdown Popular? I came to the same conclusion years ago and made myself and "alternate" markdown-like format that superficially looks the same, but has a grammar compatible with parser generators like ANTLR. Took me about a week to produce something that could generate a nice document object model, and spit out HTML (or anything you please). The concept is powerful. The specific Markdown implementation however is too messy for proper tooling.

chrisweekly on Oct 28, 2022 [–]

"too messy for proper tooling"

Obsidian and its many amazing plugins are powerful evidence to the contrary.

jiggawatts on Oct 30, 2022 | [–]

By tooling I don't mean Markdown tools. I mean the tools used to produce those tools.

Think compiler-compilers such as Yacc, Bison, or ANTLR.

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