I don't think "parsed strictly" makes something hard; on the contrary, I think it's helpful to make something easy. Clear feedback, easy to test.
But then, I've always preferred strongly typed over stringly typed.
This imagines HTML as code and not markup.
The reason HTML and markdown are more widely adopted than latex is because the former are more forgiving.
This imagines HTML as code and not markup.
The reason HTML and markdown are more widely adopted than latex is because the former are more forgiving.