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Ask HN: Programming Language for Building Slide Decks

by devstein on 1/19/24, 8:53 PM with 4 comments

• by terhechte on 1/19/24, 8:59 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 1/22/24, 2:07 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 1/19/24, 9:03 PM

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