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zimbatm | 9 months ago

One thing I miss the most when writing Markdown is this formula experience you get in Excel. Jot something down, get the result. Then link it to another block.

There are tools like Jupyter notebooks that have all the functionalities, but their file format isn't very readable or diffable using standard terminal tools.

A while back I wrote https://github.com/zimbatm/mdsh to explore the space. Voiden.md looks like a fancier version of that.

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kiselitza|9 months ago

You could technically add mdsh to the Voiden terminal, and now the whole thing is fully markdown haha. Curious, what did you learn from exploring it?

zimbatm|8 months ago

That I wasn't very good at Rust :-D

My assumption was that a tool like this will make it easier to keep the README.md in sync while the project evolves. Think of a `--help` section. That assumption holds true to me.

You can see it in action for example here: https://github.com/numtide/treefmt-nix?tab=readme-ov-file#su...

The best part is that it makes it easy to keep the README.md in sync when the project evolves. Just add it to the CI