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Ask HN: Programming Language for Building Slide Decks

by devstein on 1/19/2024, 8:53:56 PM with 4 comments
Is there such a thing? I'd love if there is a mermaid-like language for building a simple text-centric slide deck

  • by terhechte on 1/19/2024, 8:59:13 PM

    I build an app for this some time ago: https://hyperdeck.io

    It uses markdown with extensions. There’re also a lot of alternative markdown based slide generators on GitHub. Most use JavaScript though and I wanted something native

  • by petercooper on 1/22/2024, 2:07:27 PM

    https://revealjs.com/ is a mature, popular option and supports writing slides in Markdown, though ultimately you are working with HTML.

  • by thesuperbigfrog on 1/19/2024, 9:03:26 PM

    Beamer (https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer) works well if you are comfortable with LaTeX.