You've probably seen this tweet by @trq212 floating around on Twitter about letting agents write HTML instead of markdown...

Listed below are some of the reasons mentioned in the article:

Information Density

Visual Clarity & Ease of Reading

Ease of Sharing (to me this is the most compelling)

I don't disagree with Tariq, but rather than switch to HTML, I think the answer is to make markdown supported everywhere. We've been using it for years and it's powering much of the modern web. However, if we look at how software and platforms have evolved, markdown support is very dependent on the platform to render it.

Why does markdown work for humans and machines? Well, it's pretty simple, humans write simple syntax that gets rendered into something rich, and unironically, that's often by converting it to HTML and a browser engine rendering it.…