It's a markup language. In the simplest explanation, a programming language describes a process (what does the thing do) while a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed). There's more to it than that, but someone else can get into deeper if they want, it's beyond me lol

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Diogenes throws a Ruby on Rails model over the fence and shouts “Behold a markup language!”

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed)

A markup language does not define how something is to be displayed, that's what a styling language is for (usually CSS). A markup language semantically defines what certain parts of the created document are.

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lol that's fair, but since those words in that combination barely even make sense to me I tried to dumb it down more and ended up being wrong 😂

I'm the idiot who searches stack for code and copies and pastes it into the project so no one should listen to me anyway.

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I knew it was a markup language, but didn't know the diff between the two since I'm not a programmer. Thanks