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Markdown vs Unison: What are the differences?

Developers describe Markdown as "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. On the other hand, Unison is detailed as "Modern, statically-typed purely functional programming language". It is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.

Markdown and Unison can be categorized as "Languages" tools.

Unison is an open source tool with 2.53K GitHub stars and 110 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Unison's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Markdown
Pros of Unison
  • 345
    Easy formatting
  • 246
    Widely adopted
  • 194
    Intuitive
  • 132
    Github integration
  • 41
    Great for note taking
  • 2
    Defacto GitHub lingo
  • 1
    Algebraic effects
  • 1
    Simpler

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Cons of Markdown
Cons of Unison
  • 2
    Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)
  • 1
    Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc
  • 1
    Limited syntax
  • 1
    Not suitable for longer documents
  • 1
    Non-extensible
  • 1
    No right indentation
  • 1
    No underline
  • 1
    Unable to indent tables
  • 1
    Alpha quality

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What is Markdown?

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.

What is Unison?

It is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.

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