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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by smlckz on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:38AM (#24258280)
Yes, this does look like html in another cloth. I learnt about this from here: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/douglas_crockford/2007/06/...

Compare:

        <strong>important</strong>
with:

        @strong{important}
It looks like some characters saved here. I don't know how much savings would be in the long run.

For big sections, one could use @begin{blah} content here @end{blah}.

It looks a bit plesant in my eyes (than html). And only _one_ special character @, which is repeated twice to escape it.

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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by chrismorgan on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:42AM (#24258303)
Yeah, but… why? We already have all our tooling built around HTML syntax, why start something new that is not meaningfully better? All you’re doing is fracturing the ecosystem needlessly.
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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by smlckz on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:54AM (#24258363)
hmm. all toolings are around html. it isn't or meant to be going mainstream. just a niche...

>> All you're doing is fracturing the ecosystem needlessly.

I haven't done anything yet ;)

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