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Markdown vs WebAssembly: 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, WebAssembly is detailed as "A binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine". It is an open standard that defines a portable binary code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
Markdown and WebAssembly can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
WebAssembly is an open source tool with 3.49K GitHub stars and 347 GitHub forks. Here's a link to WebAssembly's open source repository on GitHub.
reddit, StackShare, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Markdown, whereas WebAssembly is used by Cubbit, NeosIT GmbH, and IHMC. Markdown has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1027 company stacks & 4275 developers stacks; compared to WebAssembly, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Markdown
- Easy formatting345
- Widely adopted246
- Intuitive194
- Github integration132
- Great for note taking41
- Defacto GitHub lingo2
Pros of WebAssembly
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Cons of Markdown
- Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)2
- Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc1
- Limited syntax1
- Not suitable for longer documents1
- Non-extensible1
- No right indentation1
- No underline1
- Unable to indent tables1
Cons of WebAssembly
- Security issues2
