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I've never heard of AsciiDoc, but I'd say the biggest advantage that Markdown has is its ubiquity. It's used by GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit, and even Tumblr h
by JoeAnzalone 12y ago
I've never heard of AsciiDoc, but I'd say the biggest advantage that Markdown has is its ubiquity. It's used by GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit, and even Tumblr has an option for it.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoAlso the fact that there are multiple (and good) client-side Markdown libraries while stuff like AsciiDoc generally requires server-side rendering (and the associated server load and round-trip penalties). Unless I'm missing it, there's no pure client-side AsciiDoc?
- chutsu 12y ago[1] seems to be an AsciiDoc render on client-side, though have no idea if it's any good though... [1]: http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render-asciidoc-in-the-browser/ http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render...
- Turing_Machine 12y agoYeah, hard to say without a live demo. Also, downloading an entire Ruby interpreter in JS seems a little on the heavy side. If you were going to go that route, might as well use texlive.js and get a full-blown LaTeX system. :-) Cool nonetheless.
- lulle 12y agoI think ubiquity comes with knowledge, if there exists superior tools, people tend to use them eventually. I know that GitHub supports AsciiDoc already, one would hope that the other ones become enlightened!