No. The primary purpose of programming languages is to be machine-readable first, human-readable second. The primary purpose of both markdown and plaintext is to be equally readable by both humans and machines.
Assembly, perhaps. But not every other language. Every other language’s sole purpose is to be easier than assembly to read by humans, so it can be compiled or translated through an engine into something a machine can read.
Machines do not read Rust. Machines do not read C++. Machines do not read JavaScript. Humans do.
Every programming language is plain text.
Not intended to be easily human-readable though.
Sure they are. They’re intended to be as easy to read for a human as possible.
No. The primary purpose of programming languages is to be machine-readable first, human-readable second. The primary purpose of both markdown and plaintext is to be equally readable by both humans and machines.
Assembly, perhaps. But not every other language. Every other language’s sole purpose is to be easier than assembly to read by humans, so it can be compiled or translated through an engine into something a machine can read.
Machines do not read Rust. Machines do not read C++. Machines do not read JavaScript. Humans do.