On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:06:57 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/10/14, 3:42 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
* Are there any other opinions on this? I remember that there have been
some strong proponents of using DDOC for things, so it would be bad if
in the end Markdown were to be dropped, after all of the work has
already been done. Personally I'd strongly favor Markdown, though.
I think ddoc is a lot more flexible than markdown, and I'm baffled by
the claim that ddoc is difficult to learn. That said I do agree it's a
turnoff for first-time website contributors. IMHO if we switch away from
ddoc we should switch to something better, not something just different.
Markdown can be instantly understood by anyone who sees it. DDOC requires
lookup/learning, even if you know how DDOC works, you still have to figure
out what all the macros mean and do. And none of that is documented as far
as I know.
Flexibility isn't everything. The goal is to make it easy to be an author.
-Steve
