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Markdown vs TopShell: 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 TopShell? *A reactive scripting language *. It is a purely functional, reactive scripting language. It includes modules for working with SSH, files, processes, HTTP and more.
Markdown and TopShell can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
TopShell is an open source tool with 252 GitHub stars and 4 GitHub forks. Here's a link to TopShell's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Markdown
- Easy formatting345
- Widely adopted246
- Intuitive194
- Github integration132
- Great for note taking41
- Defacto GitHub lingo2
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Cons of Markdown
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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
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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 TopShell?
It is a purely functional, reactive scripting language. It includes modules for working with SSH, files, processes, HTTP and more.
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