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 11 months ago

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

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

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