Re:The Eno notation language
by jacobevelyn on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:06AM
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This is a really cool project! I don't need quite the power of eno (yet!) in my CLI journaling app[1], but I similarly value the power of users being able to just easily read and write their own data. (I went with Markdown for the data store.)
In the language design phase this was heavily inspired by markdown, because of the already widely familiar concept of 'headings' - I collected feedback from users that (although they showed considerable anxiety given the prospect that they were to use text files to edit their content in the future instead of a fancy web interface) they found working with markdown (quote) "super easy", so markdown was therefore an influential factor for some aspects of the language design. :)