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Markdown vs Processing: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Processing? A programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web. It is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets.

Markdown and Processing belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

Processing is an open source tool with 2.9K GitHub stars and 786 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Processing's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Markdown has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1027 company stacks & 4275 developers stacks; compared to Processing, which is listed in 13 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Markdown
Pros of Processing
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    Easy formatting
  • 246
    Widely adopted
  • 194
    Intuitive
  • 132
    Github integration
  • 41
    Great for note taking
  • 2
    Defacto GitHub lingo
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    Cons of Markdown
    Cons of Processing
    • 2
      Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)
    • 1
      Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc
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      Limited syntax
    • 1
      Not suitable for longer documents
    • 1
      Non-extensible
    • 1
      No right indentation
    • 1
      No underline
    • 1
      Unable to indent tables
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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 Processing?

      It is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets.

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