[rchaud]

I guess it depends on how a person started off with web dev. I have always made personal web pages directly inside an .html or .php site. Instead of "##", I used <h2></h2> and so on. I don't code for a living so my practices will seem pretty archaic because there's no git, no Webpack or script minification/Gzip involved.

I remember starting an Android course ~9 years ago and then giving up within the first hour because I could not configure the Eclipse environment properly. I think the same would have been true of web dev if I had to set up a Docker container just to get to "Hello World".

HTML has that "just works" quality that kept me interested in learning.

[bachmeier]

If you want to work with html files, you can always add a CDN link to something like Marked: https://marked.js.org/ You can enter the text of your post in markdown but it will be rendered as html.