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Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by vegai_ on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:55AM (#29266861)
>Sometimes I also wonder why Org Mode is not as popular as Markdown, the former is far more powerful.

Powerful seems to imply complicated to implement. Same reason why markdown is beating asciidoc in everything.

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Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by mmcdermott on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:05PM (#29267733)
I wonder if being Docbook oriented hurt Asciidoc. At one point, I thought everything, even HTML, went through the Docbook toolchain and customizing Docbook is intimidating.
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