This would be a much better article if two things changed: One, skip the scroll gimmick. It's a waste of time and space (and that has been discussed enough)
Two, give us examples that live in that supposed wasteland. Without those, it looks like you're building a technology in the abstract. And, don't get me wrong, it's cool tech. It so tickles my sense of "fun engineering challenge, great way to express structure". But I've long learned that means it's also very likely in the "overengineered" corner.
I share your belief that there's a "there" there. (I'm on my umpteenth iteration of my own personal markdown, so I would ;) I think it'd be helpful to crystallize that into more concrete uses.
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This would be a much better article if two things changed: One, skip the scroll gimmick. It's a waste of time and space (and that has been discussed enough)
Two, give us examples that live in that supposed wasteland. Without those, it looks like you're building a technology in the abstract. And, don't get me wrong, it's cool tech. It so tickles my sense of "fun engineering challenge, great way to express structure". But I've long learned that means it's also very likely in the "overengineered" corner.
I share your belief that there's a "there" there. (I'm on my umpteenth iteration of my own personal markdown, so I would ;) I think it'd be helpful to crystallize that into more concrete uses.