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Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?

8 points by zameermfm ↗ HN
Isn't Markdown's hallmark its versatility while performant? I see there is an increasing call from tech community towards HTML to be adopted instead of Markdown due to its richness in the agentic communication layer. But is it versatile across any kind of interfaces? versatile with different format conversions? and performant (as the md is lightweight)?

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digitaltrees
What do you mean if? The internet is built on html. Markdown is a random flare up of an annoying annotation standard pushed by LLMs. No one used Markdown anywhere near at the scale of html before ChatGPT
smt88
A) Who cares? What performance are you even talking about? Number of tokens?

B) HTML can contain data, layout, and design within a single file. Markdown isn’t comparable. There will be many situations where Markdown can’t do what HTML, so this is overall a silly comparison.

LogicCraft678
HTML offers more flexibility while markdown is usually easier to create
chichengl
HTML for human? Markdown for Agent?
yossuf2000
I think its just hype not worth it at all and you want be able to read it clearly from your editot
late_night_fix
I feel like Markdown stays the human-feindly layer,while HTML/AST becomes the machine-to-machine layer.
felixsebastian
i do think html will become popular, both will stay relevant

depending on your tooling, editing and viewing html won't be a problem in the slightest and opens up all kinds of possibilities

personally very excited to introduce more html into my docs process

flexorch
I believe there is no one way,it is all about context of your work.Also leak of needs provide new versions of what we use.