alt Hacker News> compared to other markup languages
I think it would be easier for me to appreciate your comment if you named some of these other languages. Markdown is the only standardized one I regularly come across that I type by hand, these days.
What are you contrasting to?
As for Markdown specifically- the only thing I regularly mix up is the syntax for links. I frequently reverse the [] and (). But that's just because I don't use it enough to have the muscle memory.
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xigoi • yesterday at 6:50 PM
> I think it would be easier for me to appreciate your comment if you named some of these other languages.
HTML? Also my markup language I created for myself, which is currently not published.
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I used to flip the link syntax all the time too. What finally helped me to remember it was noticing how I write links in plaintext emails.
In email, I naturally write things like "...on the example website (www.example.com)..."
Markdown keeps those () in the same place, and just adds the [] so you can delimit the visible text: "...on the [example website](www.example.com)..."