alt Hacker NewsI mean, this is why I think PDFKit is a good comparison. Could you render your app's entire UI as a series of PDFs? Absolutely! Should you do that? Uh, probably not. You should use the native controls Apple gives you for buttons and dialogs and input fields and so on.
But WebKit is the native UI for HTML, and Markdown is intended to be transpiled to HTML.
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carlosjobim • today at 2:10 PM
If think that the MacOS GUI is actually entirely rendered as a series of PDFs, if I have understood things correctly.
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It's irrelevant what Markdown was meant to be transpiled to. When people say "Markdown support" these days, they mean "rich text support", since Markdown is actually just ASCII. It is ridiculous to need a Web renderer to render rich text, on any platform. Even terminal emulators can do it.