[xigoi]

> substance vs. style is a lot like HTML vs. CSS

Given the popularity of frameworks like TailwindCSS, it seems that people here don’t understand the advantage of separating HTML and CSS either, so I’m not sure if this analogy is helpful…

[coldtea]

Or that they understand it just fine, but don't think it has a particular advantage worth the extra complexity tradeoff.

[mewpmewp2]

I think graphs are quite different from HTML. The "substance" in html is far too chaotic compared to the structured data for the graphs.

[frutiger]

The substance in HTML is literally an annotated rooted tree (a subset of the complexity afforded by a graph).

[micheljansen]

The comparison to CSS for separating style vs (semantic) data was also the first thing that came to mind for me.