HACKER Q&A
📣 zameermfm

If HTML supersedes Markdown, Will it be performant across UIs?


Isn't Markdown's hallmark its versatility while performant? I see there is an increasing call from tech community towards HTML to be adopted instead of Markdown due to its richness in the agentic communication layer. But is it versatile across any kind of interfaces? and performant?


  👤 digitaltrees Accepted Answer ✓
What do you mean if? The internet is built on html. Markdown is a random flare up of an annoying annotation standard pushed by LLMs. No one used Markdown anywhere near at the scale of html before ChatGPT

👤 smt88
A) Who cares? What performance are you even talking about? Number of tokens?

B) HTML can contain data, layout, and design within a single file. Markdown isn’t comparable. There will be many situations where Markdown can’t do what HTML, so this is overall a silly comparison.


👤 yossuf2000
I think its just hype not worth it at all and you want be able to read it clearly from your editot

👤 LogicCraft678
HTML offers more flexibility while markdown is usually easier to create

👤 chichengl
HTML for human? Markdown for Agent?