Some feedback on the website.

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 16 06:42:08 PST 2015


On 12/16/2015 09:23 AM, Pradeep Gowda wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 13:52:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/15/15 9:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 01:15:45 UTC, Andrei Also, ddoc
>>> always appeared to me like a big NIH syndrome.
>>
>> What would you have done instead?
>
> While I like ddoc for inlined documentation, I believe that using a easy
> to learn, and well supported (in IDEs, editors, github, familiar to
> programmers coming from any other language background) format like
> Markdown is the way to go.
>
> I'm very partial to using pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) as a universal
> processor for converting markdown to various output formats. Rust used
> pandoc as their processor till they wrote their own toolchain. (writing
> markdown parsers appears to be right of passage to some...).
>
> Of course, there are multiple implementations of what "markdown", but
> http://commonmark.org/ is a step in the right direction (created by the
> author of Pandoc, with others).

I think Markdown postdates 2001. So at this point, would it be worth it 
switching over to Markdown? -- Andrei



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