I don't think "parsed strictly" makes something hard; on the contrary, I think it's helpful to make something easy. Clear feedback, easy to test.
replyBut then, I've always preferred strongly typed over stringly typed.
This imagines HTML as code and not markup.
replyThe reason HTML and markdown are more widely adopted than latex is because the former are more forgiving.
I am thinking of it as markup. I stand by the point: I think "forgiving" is not a feature in parsing; it's a bug.
replyThat's not obviously so. The adoption of JS wasn't particularly hindered by the fact that users have to match their brackets and generally avoid syntax errors.
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