Comment by lelanthran
2 days ago
>> The average person does not want to render code.
> I just went 22 levels deep with Zed and Marked
Sounds like you're agreeing with me :-/
Or are you arguing that the average person is a programmer, using programming editors and JS libraries?
I don’t follow. Marked definitely isn’t a programming tool. There’s nothing about Markdown that says nested lists should look like code. That’s just an accident of whatever editor you might be using, not of others.
> That’s just an accident of whatever editor you might be using, not of others.
And that’s the main issue with Markdown.
> There’s nothing about Markdown that says nested lists should look like code.
Yes there is. The Common Mark spec, from 2014, says 4+ spaces indents are code. Nested lists go beyond 4+ indents pretty fast.
…as long as you ignore the context that it’s a nested listed under a less-nested list.
Also, note that CommonMark is not identical to Markdown. It intends to be a standard definition of the language, but may differ from the original definition and implementation.