Simple HTML is easy to do. If you just want a document with information and it does not need lots of branding and great aesthetics. That is what you are looking at as an alternative to Markdown.
Modern JS/TS devs probably not, but I wouldn't even call someone a "frontend dev" if you don't know HTML, kind of being a infrastructure engineer and not knowing how any OSes work.
You don't have to be a FE dev (which is largely a junior/mid-level position anno 2026) to write HTML.
I'm not and I've used it for years. With Markdown being a thing that has been less common, sure, but that's more of a zeitgeist thing.
Simple HTML is easy to do. If you just want a document with information and it does not need lots of branding and great aesthetics. That is what you are looking at as an alternative to Markdown.
People have been authoring html by hand for a long time before the specialization to Frontend dev even existed...
I learned HTML 20+ years ago in high school.
I did not go to a front end high school.
Java engineers write lots of HTML in java docs:)
Yes so far, but it‘s switching heavily towards Markdown.
Most front end devs can’t get HTML right either.
Modern JS/TS devs probably not, but I wouldn't even call someone a "frontend dev" if you don't know HTML, kind of being a infrastructure engineer and not knowing how any OSes work.