Anything that doesn't force you to remember arbitrary ordering - square brackets first? Or parentheses? It's the textual equivalent of plugging in usb upside down.

An alternative would be to simply use square brackets for both clauses of the link.

> An alternative would be to simply use square brackets for both clauses of the link.

For comparison, Org-mode uses [[LINK][DESCRIPTION]] instead of [DESCRIPTION](LINK).