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0 pointsKwpolska1d ago0 comments

I guess the author has never heard of Markdown editors with a preview feature, and doesn't know that the Claude Code VS Code plugin opens plans in preview mode.

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weird-eye-issue1d ago

Are you just trying to pretend that Markdown is as rich as HTML and that all the use cases that they described are possible with Markdown?

mark_and_sweep1d ago

Technically, yes. Markdown was always intended to be used for creating HTML and thus allows you to use HTML inline (with some minor caveats, see: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html).

If you rename a .html file to .md, your markdown viewer should render it just the same as your browser did.

jason1cho1d ago

Markdown was a hype in late 2010s that has cooled down due to chatbots.

In turn, chatbots pump up markdown by making it the default output format.

albedoa20h ago

> has cooled down due to chatbots.

What in the world.

k4rli1d ago

I've felt the opposite. With MD being the preferred planning+documentation output for LLMs, the time of "hype" seems to be now. It seemed just a few years ago that devs hated writing properly formatted markdown.

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