Josh Goebel

> I don't agree on this, Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc., are not languages but syntaxes We'll agree to disagree then. I think perhaps you mean they aren't "programming languages" -...

> ...for the specific task of **programming** a new syntax module, [emphasis mine] But are they _programming_? 😁 Many grammars are nothing more than static definition - no code at...

> But are they programming? >> Yes ... in JavaScript, which is a programming language _I think you entirely missed my point._ Surely I can write a long novel inside...

> I'll make examples one by one Of each bug with each grammar? I'm not sure that's a great use of time. What really should happen here is to look...

Your side by side is also potentially not accurate as you used the same source-source code... SASS and Stylus (at least) are an entirely different grammars AFAIK. They don't expect/require...

Stylus sounds fun: > Stylus uses the .styl file extension and it allows us to write code in many different ways. We can use the standard CSS syntax, but we...

I'd really love to avoid having to include ALL the TAGS and ATTRIBUTES if possible.

You might start by looking at which rules are "generic" in the sense that we could have them in a single place (like CSS) and then pull into the other...

> attribute prefix -I like it but different from css and less Not so much a feature as side-effect because it's only highlighting attributes it's heard of... but this shouldn't...

Take a look at arduino and CPP. One way to do this is to make them all depend on CSS and put all the "core" rules there (as much as...