Octopress / Jekyll syntax syntax: What are the benefits of `` `(backlinks) versus {% codeblock%} (liquid extensions) etc.?

Question

I use Octopress for blogging, but I still don’t quite understand the difference, if any, between the "fluid extension" "-style code blocks using {% codeblock %} and the more normal tagged code blocks using backlinks as well as options provided by my kramdown and other converters. That is:

 {% codeblock haskell %} main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- liquid style {% endcodeblock %} 

against.

 ```haskell main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- backtick fencing style (GitHub-flavored) ``` 

against.

 ~~~ haskell main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- kramdown tilde fencing ~~~ 

against.

  main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- another kramdown style, I think {:lang="haskell"} 

and etc.

Octopress provides versions of {% codeblock %} and backtick as "plugins", and they seem to support the same stuff: syntax highlighting, file names for code, URLs, etc.

I did not have the opportunity to work with kramdown, I think, because they depend on coderay or something that I loaded but cannot work.

Anyway, here is my question :

Is there any reason to prefer one syntax style over another? On the one hand, I like fencing with a reverse stroke, because it’s a GitHub discount that I’m used to, and which seems “simpler”, but on the other hand, the liquid syntax seems to be more “native” to Octopress.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. At the moment, my posts have a random combination of styles, and I would really like to optimize them into one style.

Answer 1

 {% codeblock haskell %} main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- liquid style {% endcodeblock %} 

requires liquid

 ```haskell main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- backtick fencing style (GitHub-flavored) ``` 

not " portable "

 ~~~ haskell main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- kramdown tilde fencing ~~~ 

my choice

  main = putStrLn "Hello world" -- another kramdown style, I think {:lang="haskell"} 

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