Ask HN: Programming Language for Building Slide Decks

2 pointsdevstein2y ago4 comments

Is there such a thing? I'd love if there is a mermaid-like language for building a simple text-centric slide deck

4 comments

I build an app for this some time ago: https://hyperdeck.io

It uses markdown with extensions. There’re also a lot of alternative markdown based slide generators on GitHub. Most use JavaScript though and I wanted something native

petercooper2y ago

https://revealjs.com/ is a mature, popular option and supports writing slides in Markdown, though ultimately you are working with HTML.

thesuperbigfrog2y ago

Beamer (https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer) works well if you are comfortable with LaTeX.

devsteinOP2y ago

Oh nice. It's been a while since I've used LaTeX, but ChatGPT is great with it :)

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