Sundown
Dev tools
markup preprocessor
SHOW HN2017
121points
102comments
#350of 2,242 in 2017
Top 16%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
7 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 34 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Idea: 5 for, 20 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear, elegant syntax with good use cases like messaging
From 2 comments
Great solution. Given the problem statements that lead to this, i was pleasantly surprised by the elegance of the syntax. There are the obvious arguments about plain-text…
liquidise on HNThis looks very promising. While I do not see this as a replacement for Markdown this has some potential for use cases where Markdown is less suitable, like messaging. The…
danielbankhead on HN
Interesting reimagining of plain text with tags
From 1 comment
I like sundown a lot and see how it is better then markdown. It is very bold and smart reimagining of plain text enriched by tags. It has a long road ahead, most likely will…
desireco42 on HN
Objections
Name collides with the existing Sundown Markdown library
From 2 comments
Very poor naming choice. Sundown is the name of a popular Markdown implementation: https://github.com/vmg/sundown Strongly suggest renaming your project as early as possible.
Sir_Cmpwn on HNAs a product marketer, I have to say that the name is very unfortunate. 1. Sundown is the name of a Markdown library written in C: https://github.com/vmg/sundown. That Sundown is…
ktamura on HN
Not a real alternative to Markdown; it is HTML with a different syntax
From 2 comments
This is fine, but isn’t really an alternative to markdown. It’s not good for what markdown is good for, which is writing and reading plain text that can also be transformed to…
jmull on HNI'm iffy on this kind of thing. Markdown has the advantage of looking roughly like what you'd do in plain text and is completely readable in plain text with no processing. It…
SwellJoe on HN
Loses Markdown's readability as plain text
From 2 comments
I think there's lots of opportunity for a markdown alternative, but I worry that this starts in the wrong place. It seems like it's built around code, whereas Markdown is built…
shortformblog on HNI'm iffy on this kind of thing. Markdown has the advantage of looking roughly like what you'd do in plain text and is completely readable in plain text with no processing. It…
SwellJoe on HN
Performance claim is unsupported
From 2 comments
Just because someone is going to link it, I might as well do it first: https://xkcd.com/927/ But yeah, "Too many implementations of Markdown" is not an issue a new markup…
norswap on HNThis doesn't seem to solve any issues that markdown has and also fails to see how fast most modern Markdown implementations are. Using an unmaintaned 5 year old perl script for…
hashhar on HN
Requests
Source code or a specification
From 2 comments
This looks very promising. While I do not see this as a replacement for Markdown this has some potential for use cases where Markdown is less suitable, like messaging. The…
danielbankhead on HNFirst off, Good work on your project, Sed! Here are some clickables of SunSed: - https://www.sunsed.com/ - https://www.sunsed.com/pricing - https://www.sunsed.com/tags/s A list…
git-pull on HN
Questions
Is the source open?
From 1 comment
First off, Good work on your project, Sed! Here are some clickables of SunSed: - https://www.sunsed.com/ - https://www.sunsed.com/pricing - https://www.sunsed.com/tags/s A list…
git-pull on HN
Alternatives named
Markdown
From 1 comment
I'm iffy on this kind of thing. Markdown has the advantage of looking roughly like what you'd do in plain text and is completely readable in plain text with no processing. It…
SwellJoe on HN
HAML
From 1 comment
Started reading with interest, but then everything started to look really similar to HAML [0] after a bit. With the exception that HAML also lets you add CSS classes to your…
cyberferret on HN
reStructuredText
From 1 comment
It looks like he set out to solve all the problems reStructuredText solved a long long time ago
corndoge on HN
Pug
From 1 comment
Seems closer to Pug with :colons than an alternative to markdown to me. Looks like an interesting project though!
tazard on HN