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Comment by dysoco | Hacker News Reader

As a non-web developer I cry every time I need to use HTML: It's really "ugly" in some way (And I'm used to ugly languages).

But I have learned to love Markdown too, I hope in the future, distant future: Someone will create a language that integrates HTML and CSS into a nice Markdown-like language.

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HTML ugly? Nonsense.

  <!doctype html>
  <meta charset=utf-8>
  <title>Hello, world</title>

  <h1>Hello, world</h1>
  <p>This is a paragraph about HTML.
  <ul>
    <li>Bullet point
    <li>Bullet point
  </ul>

That's not ugly.

Wait, not closing <p> and <li> is valid?

Completely. You can, with a doctype, also omit <html>, <head> and <body>, too.

Not closing <li> is good, but I'd avoid it for <p>.

No way. Markdown chooses simplicity over correctness. Fine for chat forums an Readmes, but in many cases correctness matters.

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