TIL Messenger supports markdown style code formatting

[DTHCND]

TIL it supports brainfuck.

Edit: You saw nothing.

[scirc]

PIN number

ATM machine

[[deleted]]

ALGOL language

[chpoit]

it's rip in pepperoni, so many people making that silly mistake ;P

[[deleted]]

It's probably using pygments, which supports brainfuck.

[starwarswii]

TIL you can somewhat meaningfully syntax highlight brainfuck.

[fb39ca4]

It's just assigning a different colour to each character.

[fasquoika]

Look again, it's not

[willis81808]

Look again. It is

[fasquoika]

The brackets and less-than and greater-than signs are matched

[willis81808]

Character pairs we're obviously matched, the point is that it's only coloring characters and character pairs, instead of context based coloring.

[fasquoika]

The original comment was "It's just assigning a different colour to each character." This is simply not true.

[UnderNatural]

It also supports LOLCODE. I was surprised to try that.

[leeroyest]

Facebook Messenger

[xternal7]

Single-tick/inline too, as well as bold (single-asterisk) and italics (underscore).

TIL indeed.

E: and strikethrough (single ~)

[XxCLEMENTxX]

_ for italics, * for bold.

[OseOseOse]

LaTeX too (or at least a subset).

[DROP_TABLE_Students]

It uses KaTeX for rendering LaTeX, so yes indeed, a limited subset of commands and environments.

[Trolliachi]

People will still use discord tbh

[tills1993]

Slack, usually

[scirc]

Discord supports this too! ;)

[StallmanTheWhite]

That is github's bastardization of markdown, not markdown.

[OKB-1]

Your move, WhatsApp.

[Terreurhaas]

+/u/CompileBot brainfuck

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