Show HN: Cleaner Markdown lang and static site generator (Shrimple)

https://qount25.dev/Shrimple/

by usrbinenv • 1 year ago

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90s_dev4• 1 year ago

a better, cleaner Markdown alternative

Better and cleaner compared to what? What does this improve on? What pain points does it solve?

usrbinenv3• 1 year ago

Markdown is unreadable as a source. This solves the problem of looking good and clean as a text document and not having to remember many rules (certainly less than Markdown) to write a valid Shrimple markup that compiles nicely to HTML. Another thing is a static site generator that's very nice for writing documentation sites -- it takes care of generating not just the html pages tree, but also inserts menu and navigation links in them correctly.

90s_dev4• 1 year ago

The nice thing about MD is that it's a spec, separate from impls. If I were to use this, I'd want to install a node.js lib that renders it to HTML and has a plugin API for features you didn't think of but that I need and know how to implement myself. So I wouldn't tout the built-in-ssg as a feature, more of an ad hoc spec like perl markdown originally was.

Also I commented with some feedback in another part of this post.

90s_dev4• 1 year ago

Oh, I see. It's an alternative to Markdown itself.

Interesting. Ambitious, but interesting. MD does have some serious warts.

It would be nice if you could provide a shorter summary of the differences, mainly the pain points it solves and how it solves it.

A few notes so far:

* Markdown has [named link references] that clean up inline links a lot. I didn't know about them until recently.

* How do you specify the language for code blocks so they can be syntax highlighted? That seems like a missing feature, and one I won't be able to work without.

* I agree that header delims in Markdown seem literally backwards. ### seems like a more primary header than ## or #, and === more than --- when under the text.

* I also agree that h4-6 are useless, but I would need h3 at least.

This project is interesting, and I'd like to see it gain traction, at least in discussions. I started a similar experimental language in 90s.dev for similar reasons.

[named link references]: https://github.com/sdegutis/90s.dev/compare/6d83a384e5aec81c...

90s_dev4• 1 year ago

Also, markdown-it (and probably other MD engines) has number-list-normalization. I think it's practically standard atp.

usrbinenv3• 1 year ago

### seems like a more primary header

I really dislike this for headers, but also, this marker is only valid inside code blocks and is optional.

How do you specify the language for code blocks so they can be syntax highlighted?

See above, with ###Go and then add Prism.js into your document.

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