Ask HN: What's the Best Tool to Create Slides Using a Markup Language

Similar in approach (in that it can use Markdown) but Deckset.app for OSX also incorporates a GUI, I don't think you'd need to know any CSS.

Rather than using reveal.js, perhaps consider the GUI version at slides.com?

Beamer is a great tool as well, there are some really nice themes for it. My favourite is Metropolis: https://github.com/matze/mtheme The markup is Latex, so you'll need a latex toolchain for that.

Please check https://mark.show/

You can:

Write markdown in editor

or

Upload a markdown file

or

Import direct from URL of markdown file.

PS: I am creator of the service.

Pretty interesting, thanks! Is there a way to run this locally?

Apart from that, I find what really stops me from using such tools is the lack of control over the layout of slides. Just saying use CSS isn't really enough for me! I found gitpitch to offer pretty good layout options, but the service is too commercial for my taste.

For simpler ones with markdown I found marp very easy to work with : https://github.com/yhatt/marp