HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed
Tim Carmody has a great appreciation of HTML in Wired magazine: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me.
HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age. It’s both how we write and what we read. It’s the most democratic computer language and the most global. It’s the medium we use to connect with each other and publish to the world. It makes perfect sense that it was developed to serve as a library — an archive, a directory, a set of connections — for all digital knowledge.
I love HTML!
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Oh yay!
htmx pushes even further in the programming language direction.
love to see people arguing that html isn’t a programming language in the year of our lord 2025
Like, buddy
magic the gathering is turing complete, we have banner ads that commit crimes, i just saw someone make a quine in a TYPE DEFINITION, human ingenuity laughs at your parochial gatekeeping
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