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Markdown vs Semantic UI

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Overview

Semantic UI
Semantic UI
Stacks992
Followers1.5K
Votes673
GitHub Stars51.2K
Forks4.9K
Markdown
Markdown
Stacks22.2K
Followers16.5K
Votes960

Markdown vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?

Markdown: Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber. Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML; Semantic UI: A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Markdown and Semantic UI are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.

"Easy formatting", "Widely adopted" and "Intuitive" are the key factors why developers consider Markdown; whereas "Easy to use and looks elegant", "Variety of components" and "Themes" are the primary reasons why Semantic UI is favored.

Semantic UI is an open source tool with 45.7K GitHub stars and 4.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Semantic UI's open source repository on GitHub.

Asana, OpenTable, and Code School are some of the popular companies that use Markdown, whereas Semantic UI is used by Snapchat, Create.It, and Reviewable. Markdown has a broader approval, being mentioned in 749 company stacks & 702 developers stacks; compared to Semantic UI, which is listed in 77 company stacks and 50 developer stacks.

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Advice on Semantic UI, Markdown

Rick
Rick

founder at Webcompose.ca

May 8, 2020

Needs adviceonGitHubGitHubMarkdownMarkdownnpmnpm

I am a newbie to StackShare and the GitHub community. I want to understand how to use an include statement to get a collection of Markdown files to create a book. I have been told that there are a number of useful tools. My problem is that npm and Node.js are also very new to me. Any suggestions on how to get my md chapters into a printable document would be helpful.

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Detailed Comparison

Semantic UI
Semantic UI
Markdown
Markdown

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

Build Responsive Layouts Easier;Self Explanatory;Tag ambivalent;Powerful tools for expressing groups and collections;Portable and self-contained
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
51.2K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
4.9K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
992
Stacks
22.2K
Followers
1.5K
Followers
16.5K
Votes
673
Votes
960
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 157
    Easy to use and looks elegant
  • 92
    Variety of components
  • 64
    Themes
  • 61
    Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
  • 57
    Semantic, duh
Cons
  • 5
    Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
  • 3
    Poor accessibility support
  • 3
    HTML is not semantic (see list component)
  • 2
    Javascript is tied to jquery
Pros
  • 345
    Easy formatting
  • 246
    Widely adopted
  • 194
    Intuitive
  • 132
    Github integration
  • 41
    Great for note taking
Cons
  • 2
    Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)
  • 1
    No underline
  • 1
    Unable to indent tables
  • 1
    Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc
  • 1
    Limited syntax
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What are some alternatives to Semantic UI, Markdown?

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

C#

C#

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

Scala

Scala

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.

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