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Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by layer8 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:26PM (#34513137)
It’s not very noisy compared to full-blown XML or JSON. Certainly not unreadable like the parent claimed.

About IDEs, yeah, Java is certainly an IDE language, no sensible way around that.

Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by avgcorrection on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:15PM (#34523546)
I’ll give you that. For the people who are writing documentation IN XML OR JSON it’s bound to be a big step up.