> If you're still looking for a name let me suggest "hyper text".

Perhaps "WWW SPA document"? Using markdown with highly-progressive fenced blocks?

Hypertext (one word, coined 1960s) is quite a broad category. Subcategory "WWW" could fit, as TFA seems WWW-ish. A markdown document format, and progressive rendering of tags and code, seems HTML-like. Though with greater progressiveness - code blocks with streamed execution rather than merely compilation. The progressive JSON callbacks, React, integrated client and server code execution, and server-side rendering, seem closer to WWW SPA than to HTML. Though SPA files often seem more "source" than "document". And the multiple-page "App"-ness of SPA doesn't fit well. SPA seems a better fit than "full-stack". Perhaps some name analogous to "isomorphic javascript"...?

Every turn of the wheel someone wants to make a new one.

Maybe one day someone will invent a rounder wheel.

Personally I think we should move to heptagons, they're round enough.

The wheel is what I would call, passé.

I disagree. Hexagons are the bestagons.

What is a hexagon if not 4 triangles in a trenchcoat?

Some triangles are so acute though.

nah heptagons are passé; nowadays it’s all about nonagons. xD

Every day the wheel of society turns a little further off course.

Soon we'll be optimizing for minimizing the sides of a wheel (triangles are not the final form here...) /s

Or more precisely, isn't this reinventing notebooks (not the first JS-centric notebook either)?

In this timeline I suggest favouring a style semantics and specification language.

[given what CSS has incrementally and inevitably become, it's my ever-firmer belief that DSSSL would've been the right choice in the first place]

If HTML happened again except this time it was markdown, maybe more non-nerds would be able to use it? XML just looks gnarly.

Problem with the markdown approach the text will become rapidly ugly with hacks, non-standard annotations to enable same features as HTML.

I'm very curious. I hated how html requires angled brackets for everything and love markdown for its neatness.

What are some of the ugly hacks you've seen that were applied?

Image width.

Ha, history does rhyme ;) Happy if you reach out via mail!

I think he's talking about CSS