Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?

I said “not used at the scale of html” not “no utility”

No but I should.

My point is: what’s the total number of html files in existence? Billions. What’s the total number of markdown readme files.

I saw you sitting at -1 karma so I gave you an upvote.

What do you mean by the cost of rendering an HTML page in an IDE? You know those markdown previews are almost always rendered by converting them to an HTML snippet first, right? Also HTML does not need to be styled, the tags have their own semantic meanings just like the various semantic structures of markdown. The styling “overhead”, which gets added so the document is easier to visually interpret for a human, is exactly the same. The only time when styling doesn’t come into the equation is when you directly view markdown source.

Also, latency???

> Rendering of an HTML page vs MD in an AI IDE or even tokens

MD is usually converted to HTML and then rendered by a webview, which means MD is more expensive.

> compounding costs for a communication doc may be billions in a year

Lol absolutely not. It would be surprising if the "compounding costs for a communication doc" reached $1 a year. I don't think you understand how efficient computers are and how optimized HTML rendering has become.

> As tokens needs to conserved

Not really. No large org is really optimizing for fewer tokens yet.

Nobody cares about “tokens”