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Markdown vs ReasonML: 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; ReasonML: A friendly programming language for JavaScript and OCaml. It lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.It is powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you.
Markdown and ReasonML can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
ReasonML is an open source tool with 7.92K GitHub stars and 374 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ReasonML's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Markdown has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1006 company stacks & 4064 developers stacks; compared to ReasonML, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Markdown
- Easy formatting345
- Widely adopted246
- Intuitive194
- Github integration132
- Great for note taking41
- Defacto GitHub lingo2
Pros of ReasonML
- Pattern Matching4
- Type System3
- React1
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Cons of Markdown
- Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)2
- Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc1
- Limited syntax1
- Not suitable for longer documents1
- Non-extensible1
- No right indentation1
- No underline1
- Unable to indent tables1
Cons of ReasonML
- Bindings1
