Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

kept by eddie may 02

Quarkdown extends Markdown with programmable features for advanced typesetting, positioning itself as a simpler alternative to LaTeX and competing with Typst.

How Markdown took over the world
Markdown became ubiquitous due to its simplicity, plain-text nature, and portability, despite ongoing standardization debates.
also on Typst, Pandoc, Markdown, #open-source, #user-experience, #developer-tools
Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages - The GitHub Blog
AI-generated code's unreliability pushes developers toward typed languages like TypeScript, which catch type-check errors that cause 94% of LLM compilation failures.
also on Typst, #programming-languages, #developer-tools
What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.
also on Pandoc, #programming-languages, #developer-tools
Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
Pandoc turned twenty, recounting its Haskell origins, growth to support over fifty formats, integration with tools like Quarto and Jupyter, and enduring community appreciation.
also on Pandoc, #open-source, #developer-tools
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
Markdown, created by John Gruber in 2004 as a simple plain-text formatting tool for blogging, has become the ubiquitous standard for annotating everything from AI prompts to code repositories.
also on Markdown, #programming-languages, #open-source, #developer-tools