<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention">@<span>codinghorror</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://phire.place/@tim" class="u-url mention">@<span>tim</span></a></span> Many snub HTML because it's a descriptive language, not a set of instructions. But it's still programming, as it's telling the browser the contents, but also why it's important, the context, all the things a language does.</p><p>It's a language of nouns and adjectives, the tags and attributes.</p>