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Markdown vs Nim: What are the differences?

Markdown: Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber. Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML; Nim: A statically typed compiled systems programming language. It is an efficient, expressive and elegant language which compiles to C/C++/JS and more. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

Markdown and Nim can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.

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Pros of Markdown
Pros of Nim
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    Easy formatting
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    Widely adopted
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    Intuitive
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    Github integration
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    Great for note taking
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    Defacto GitHub lingo
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    Expressive like Python
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    Extremely fast
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    Very fast compilation
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    Macros
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    Cross platform
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    Optional garbage collection
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    Easy C interoperability
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    Readable operators

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Cons of Markdown
Cons of Nim
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    Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)
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    Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc
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    Limited syntax
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    Not suitable for longer documents
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    Non-extensible
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    No right indentation
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    No underline
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    Unable to indent tables
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    Small Community
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What is Markdown?

Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

What is Nim?

It is an efficient, expressive and elegant language which compiles to C/C++/JS and more. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

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What are some alternatives to Markdown and Nim?
MarkUp
It allows you to turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback and collaboration. Streamline your feedback with a quicker, easier, and clearer process.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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