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Asciidoctor vs Bel: What are the differences?
Developers describe Asciidoctor as "An open source, pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc documents or strings into HTML and other formats". It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems . On the other hand, Bel is detailed as "A new dialect of Lisp, by Paul Graham". It is a spec for a new dialect of Lisp, written in itself. It is a language with expressive power, clarity, and efficiency.
Asciidoctor and Bel are primarily classified as "Text Processors" and "Languages" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Asciidoctor are:
- Lightweight markup language for authoring notes
- Articles
- Documentation
On the other hand, Bel provides the following key features:
- Dialect of Lisp
- Expressive
- Language with clarity, and efficiency
Pros of Asciidoctor
- GitHub integration1
- Versatile1
- Easy fornatting0