Let speak frankly about BBCode

Drop the meme for a moment. Do you really like BBCode? Outside of /prog/, the dislike for BBCode is nearly universal. Especially among web programmers.

It's too much like HTML without actually being HTML, they argue. "Why don't you just use HTML tags?"

Even amongst /prog/riders, some would prefer Sexpcode instead of BBCode.

Maybe /prog/ is two-faced. You say BBCode rules in /prog/, but outside of /prog/ you might say it sucks. Is world4ch's BBCode different enough to warrant not being grouped together with the BBCode of your average forums?

What are your thoughts?

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But BBCode is just HTML that uses square brackets instead of angle brackets.

Seriously speaking though, the only difference between BBCode and HTML is that BBCode is presentation and HTML is structure. HTML also used to be presentation, but they deprecated those tags in favor of CSS. Just look at all the BBCode tags, including those outside of /prog/... it tries to be olde HTML really hard.